Rip Van Winkle

by Washington Irving · 1819

A henpecked Dutch villager drinks with ghostly bowlers in the Catskill Mountains and wakes twenty years later to find his wife dead, his village transformed, and the American Revolution already history.

Books that mention Rip Van Winkle (10)

• Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser: “Very good," returned Hurstwood, "only it's the same old thing, 'Rip Van Winkle.”
• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller: “He played "Rip Van Winkle." I had often read the story”
• Ulysses by James Joyce: “Rip van Winkle we played”
• So Big by Edna Ferber: “those gnarled and bearded bowlers so mysteriously encountered by Rip Van Winkle on that fatal day in the Kaatskills.”
• The Job by Sinclair Lewis: “excursionists up the Hudson to the storied hills of Rip Van Winkle”
• When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: “It’s Rip Van Winkle come real.” “It’s Bellamy,” said Warming.”
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell: “[22] Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 'Rip van Winkle.'”
• My Ántonia by Willa Cather: “went with me to see Joseph Jefferson in 'Rip Van Winkle'”
• Exit Ghost by Philip Roth: “fühlte ich mich für einen Augenblick wie Rip Van Winkle, der zwanzig Jahre geschlafen hatte”
• Fury by Salman Rushdie: “'Does nobody here know poor Rip van Winkle?' we ask plaintively, and nobody, any longer, does.”