An idle man falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains only to wake up twenty years later, bewildered as to how life passed him by. 'Includes an analysis of the story and a biography of the author.
A collection of five stories by American author Washington Irving, including the title work about a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains and wakes to a much-changed world.
Because Wishbone keeps getting interrupted while trying to take a nap, he begins thinking about Rip Van Winkle and finds himself in Rip's shoes, finally waking to a changed world.
An adaptation of Washington Irving's classic story in which a man who sleeps in the Catskill Mountains for twenty years straight awakes to a much-changed world.