In the canon
Rip Van Winkle
- Form
- Form Short Story
- Year
- Year 1819
- Pages
- Pages 12
A henpecked villager wanders into the Catskill Mountains, drinks with ghostly Dutchmen playing ninepins and sleeps for twenty years, waking to find his wife dead, his king overthrown and his country now a republic he barely recognises.
Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains.
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