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(2) Rip Van Winkle: the protagonist a villager of Dutch descent lives in a nice village at the foot of New Yorks Catskill Mountains an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect he is loved by all but his wife (3) The plot One autumn day he escapes his nagging wife by wandering up the mountains. There he encounters strangely dressed men, rumored to be the ghosts of Henry Hudsons crew, who are playing nine-pins. After drinking some of their liquor, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes and returns to his village, where he finds twenty years have passed. He finds out that his wife has died and that his close friends have died in a war or gone somewhere else. Washington Irving (1783-1859)“Rip Van Winkle”（《瑞普·凡·温克尔》) Washington Irving(1783-1859) I. Position in American literature II. Life III. Works IV. Literary Achievements V. Style VI. Contributions I. Position in American literature Father of American literature 1. the first American (true) literary writer 2. the first American man of letters 3. America’s first genuine internationally best-selling author 4. the first belletrist in American literature, writing for pleasure at a time when writing was practical and for useful purposes ------------------------------------------------------------------------- belletrist n. 纯文学作者 5. the first American writer to earn his living solely by his pen 6. the first American literary humorist 7. the first modern short story writer 8. the first to write history and biography as entertainment 9. His use of the gothic looks forward to Poe. 10. the messenger sent from the new world to the old world 11. “the American Goldsmith” Mark Twain also is called the Father of American Literature the true Father of American Literature II. life and literary career Born: 3 April 1783 Birthplace: New York, New York Died: 28 November 1859 named for George Washington; his parents were admirers of General Washington. Irving was