And the Yeah, Hello everyone and welcome to another episode from 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales.

Rip Van Winkle is a short story by the American author

Washington Irving, which was first published in 1819.

It follows a Dutch American villager in 1819.

It follows a Dutch American villager in colonial America

named Rip Van Winkle, who falls asleep

in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later,

having missed the American Revolution.

Although Washington Irving was born near Terrytown, New York, near the Hudson River,

and named after our first president George Washington, Irving wrote it while living in Birmingham, England

as part of the collection,

the Sketchbook of Joffrey Crayon, Gentlemen.

This was his first real success,

and he would go on to write a number of popular books and short stories which would become American classics.

And now, Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Catskill Mountains.

They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family and are seeing away to the west of the river,

swelling up to a noble height and lording it over the surrounding country.

Every change of season, every change of weather.

Indeed, every hour of the day produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these

mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives far and near as perfect barometers.

When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple and

print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky. But sometimes when the rest of the landscape is

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