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“Rip Van Winkle” (1820)<br />

Included in The Sketch-Book of<br />

Geoffrey Crayon (1819-20), a<br />

miscellany of travel sketches,<br />

essays of opinion and<br />

‘folktales’ like “Rip Van<br />

Winkle”, put together by a<br />

Geoffrey Crayon, a fictional<br />

persona of <strong>Irving</strong>’s own<br />

creation<br />

It was based on German<br />

folktales<br />

Old Rip

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