Rip Van Winkle: A Posthumous Tale of Diedrich Knickerbocker

To escape his nagging wife, a henpecked villager goes rambling through the Catskills and encounters mysterious strangers with a powerful liquor. Twenty years later, Rip Van Winkle awakens to find his world forever changed. Washington Irving's evocative 1819 classic of colonial life first appeared in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories.