Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving – Focus on Characters and Settings

RIP VAN WINKLE. A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. By Woden, God of Saxons, From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday. Truth is a thing that ever I will keep Unto thylke day in which I creep into My sepulchre—— Cartwright. [The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old…