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Rip Van Winkle
"
Rip Van Winkle
" is a
short story
by American author
Washington Irving
published in
1819
as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in
Birmingham
, England, it was part of a collection entitled
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Although the story is set in
New York
's
Catskill Mountains
, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills."
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