瑞普凡温克尔Rip_Van_Winkle中英文对照与summary.docVIP

作者简介： 华盛顿·欧文（Washington?Irving）（1789-1895）,?美国浪漫主义作家，也是一个纯文学作家，他的写作态度是writing?for?pleasure?and?to?produce?pleasure。欧文的代表作有《见闻札记》（Sketch?Book），这是第一部伟大的青少年读物，也是美国本土作家第一部成功的小说。由于欧文对美国文学的伟大贡献，他获得了“美国文学之父”的光荣称号。这篇短篇小说，《瑞普·凡·温克尔》便是摘自《见闻札记》。Rip Van Winkle A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker By Washington Irving (THE FOLLOWING tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers. His historical researches, however, did not