can you summarize what is that short story all about?
A conversation on nostalgia with his American expatriate brother-in-law, Irving wrote the story while temporarily living in Birmingham, England.
Rip Van Winkle
Inspired by a conversation on nostalgia with his American expatriate brother-in-law, Irving wrote the story while temporarily living in Birmingham, England.
who are the ghosts in a christmas carol Jacob Marley who is the author of this novel? Charles Dickens when was it published? 1843 who published it that year? Chapman & Hall list a few characters appearing in the novel. Ebenezer Scrooge,Jacob Marley what is the story all about? "A Christmas Carol" recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. how many staves are there in this story? 5 who are some of the author's influences on writing? Douglas Jerrold and Washington Irving what is the second person's professional background? Short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat what are some of this person's works? "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow",  "The Sketch Book" what type of written work is the first one mentioned? A short story
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Rip Van Winkle [SEP] Introduction
"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their liquor and falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution. Inspired by a conversation on nostalgia with his American expatriate brother-in-law, Irving wrote the story while temporarily living in Birmingham, England. It was published in his collection, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." While the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains near where Irving later took up residence, he admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills."