Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" is an 1819 short story set in America. Rip Van Winkle is a fictional character from the Catskill Mountains who is a villager in colonial America.

He encounters some mystery Dutchmen, drinks some of their wine, and then falls asleep. Twenty years later, he wakes up to a drastically different world because he did not live through the American Revolution.