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en-wikipedia-org-363		Rip Van Winkle - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5828	584	78	"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. "Rip Van Winkle" was one of the first stories Irving proposed for his new book, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Following the success of Rip Van Winkle in print and on stage, later celebrated editions were illustrated by Arthur (Heinemann, 1905) and N.C. Wyeth (McKay, 1921). Finally, he encountered his younger brother, who had become an old man, and learned that he had been asleep in the cave for fifty-seven years.[9][10] According to the different sources that Diogenes relates, Epimenides lived to be 154, 157, or 299 years old.[11] Multiple sources have identified the story of Epimenides as the earliest known variant of the "Rip Van Winkle" fairy tale.[9][10][12][13][14] Tales of Washington Irving, a one-hour animated television special from 1970, presented adaptations of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle".[25] Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (1819)	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-363.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-363.txt