Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, unabridged audiobook

Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Rip Van Winkle
Read by Bob Neufeld
"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819 as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.. Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills."
One winter day, Rip is escaping his wife's nagging, wandering up the mountains with his dog, Wolf. Hearing his name being shouted, Rip discovers that the speaker is a man dressed in antiquated Dutch clothing, carrying a keg up the mountain, who requires Rip's help. Without exchanging words, the two hike up to an amphitheatre-like hollow in which Rip discovers the source of previously-heard thunderous noises: there is a group of other ornately-dressed, silent, bearded men who are playing nine-pins. Although there is no conversation and Rip does not ask the men who they are or how they know his name, he discreetly begins to drink some of their liquor, and soon falls asleep.
He awakes in unusual circumstances...
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Audio Recording © courtesy of Librivox
This video: © Copyright 2013. PublicAudioLibrary. All Rights Reserved.

[@AmbiguouslyAwesome]

Gosh I love this narration, I feel like someone's grandpa is sat next to a fireplace reading this story to me

[@amandadeloof6]

It legitimately put me to sleep. I was supposed to be doing homework.

[@happinesswins]

Yes and screming in my ear. I hate it. 0/10

[@AmbiguouslyAwesome]

@@happinesswins ok

[@marisajepsen7712]

@@happinesswins morning i

[@waitwhat9726]

Those goddamned Pinkerton's have been here...

[@belleme7542]

Wait, What?

[@BRO_Adventures]

wut?

[@DAKRAB]

A reference to the game red dead redemption 2...

[@BRO_Adventures]

@@DAKRAB ok

[@dswagjr8802]

@@DAKRAB hey i heard gavin took a stagecoach to Chicago

[@heylosersaykidbackwards9021]

TH-cam truly is a godsend when it comes to getting informational textbooks for free👍👌

[@disgruntledpedant2755]

Rip van winkle is informational?

[@belleme7542]

Dik

[@actualideas8078]

disgruntled pedant lol it is a strange adjective...

[@reah7213]

Informational if you're aim is to get drunk and pass out while your life passes you by, so yeah i found it informational

[@benedictator4763]

Agent milton: who are you?
John :

[@DarkLight-sz1vp]

0:03

[@makella3149]

This saved my life. I needed to read all this for a quiz this AM. Thanks God I found this audiobook. Listening to it and following through the book, gave me more understanding than me reading the text... Very awesome.
Thanks to the Narrator and the public Library. 😀🤩

[@danharrell2024]

Mak Ella yep me too!

[@NikeShoe]

absolutely

[@bananaduck9849]

Same

[@actualideas8078]

I’ve found the second time I read something my comprehension is boosted 500%

[@molasses3850]

I find the most useful way to understand books like this, that I'm not really into, but have to read for school, is to listen and read at the same time. It gives me a better understanding of what's going on and I'm less likely to get distracted.

[@somewhatreallycoolguy7439]

man this narrator is actually who i was hoping for. so often im subjected to monotonous librovox recordings but now i feel like someone's old dutch grandpa is telling some story smoking a pipe. so nostalgic

[@keouine]

omg Librivox narrators... someone must tell them

[@thegooseman90]

Hope Rip Van Winkle follows Dutchs plan.

[@VulpezInculta]

Nah he's Jim Milton now

[@user-hx6gs9rq7u]

That sounds like the name of an outlaw

[@gmorowe]

and it has pinkertons...
rdr2

[@GeoWhiz287]

Terrific job by the narrator!

[@MoAlfaraj]

Who is here looking for Jim Milton?

[@Gaedar]

I found john but no jim

[@princejay1082]

Mo Ali lol

[@mikemiller1884]

Brilliantly written and wonderfully read! What an unexpected gift! Thanks to the memory of Washington Irving and thanks for the talent evidenced by our reading by Bob Neufeld.

[@mikekazz5353]

Man why didn't I think of looking up audiobooks for book reports in highschool, could've caught up on classes that I slacked off in.

[@chillrock5151]

That's whatvim doing rn. Do you understand the story?

[@rayunseitig6367]

Summary. "Rip Van Winkle" is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War in a village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains where Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch-American villager, lives. One autumn day, Van Winkle wanders into the mountains with his dog Wolf to escape his wife's nagging.

[@kearascrapbook]

Ray Unseitig thank you

[@thegooseman90]

Dutch? Does he have a plan?

[@isabelhart9691]

he came across dwarf like creatures or people that gave him a drink that then put him into a deep sleep , they tricked them and robbed him of his dog and gun

[@user-hx6gs9rq7u]

Dutch? Dutch Van Der Linde?

[@Joe-kk2xp]

I though rip van winkle was an outlaw that agent Milton was questioning

[@gmorowe]

Rip Van Derlinde

[@mohdakmal8035]

Tahiti

[@source6893]

One more big score, then we're gone.

[@jungleman4238]

19mins in just admiring and enjoying this comforting and smoothe voice... forget the story lol.

[@groovyhippie4228]

This is very outside my preferred genre I had to read it for class and couldn’t get into it nor concentrate this audio help so much thank god for audiobooks😂

[@ATINKERER]

This is one of the best stories ever written! I enjoyed hearing it.

[@kristinacable]

Great tale, and a fantastic narration

[@sea9994]

I was read this as a child by my grandmother.. the,story classic hearing it as adult new meaning .

[@cydgi3876]

Where is Arthur Callahan ?

[@marvelousmimi9165]

Thanks so much for reading I have to read this for my literature class

[@tcm_fragger855]

Me too

[@spytex5268]

I know this rip van winkle guy

[@pavannair6469]

Are you a pinkerton detective agency?

[@itstheweather642]

Thanks for reading the true detail regarding the King of England and General Washington....

[@ian_b]

I really enjoyed this. Thank you.

[@saugathustler3020]

amazing narration

[@skwbtm1]

Washington Irving 1783-1859

[@damaygo1742]

RIP

[@zebracorn9184]

*RIP* Van Winkle

[@carollo7378]

Jhon marston

[@andonascended]

Lol. I thought that this was Morgan Freeman for like almost half of listening. h e l p m e

[@vladrik7881]

it is him

[@goddiva31180]

Eli Chavez 😂

[@TeamMINE_]

Morgan freeman? Don’t you mean Arthur Morgan?

[@Erik-ct1kh]

Sounds like i'm listening to Gandalf haha

[@xinpogi]

thanks

[@AdrianRodriguez-p7q]

He makes my ears want to explode listening to this having the same voice that echoes through my head.

[@hammerite6418]

I think he has L U M B A G O

[@tydiop4095]

no one:
the captions:*3x player speed*

[@johnmarston1326]

I’m the real rip van winkle

[@chasjetty8729]

Thanks friend.

[@Big_time_949]

Cool story, bro

[@everydaylightskin5983]

I didn't think Rip van winkle would be a real name

[@GenX1964]

If my wife ever hears this she'll say I am the reincarnation of old RIP for sure.

[@salmanhyder1655]

Irving ❤️

[@jrdardonl]

Personally, I really enjoy when a elder reads in their old American English accent. Nowadays when youngsters speaks (X-Geners, millenials, &c.) , is quite annoying!

[@Loki-cd9nu]

Stfu you boomer fuck

[@pennyproud2474]

Good luck living in the modern world then lol

[@lailamansouri7967]

Hi!! Please, can you tell me how many pages does this story contains,because whenever i search for it I find just 28 pages and i'm not sure if it is completed or not.

[@amirajaber4149]

That seems about right; it is a short story, so it shouldn't be long.

[@venugpal7680]

Yes Laila..

[@masongill821]

Those god damn Pinkertons

[@pshaw8406]

If it's wooden, is it really a tombstone?

[@lobstahrmccoy3962]

His voice sounds like that of a pilgrim father

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[@katyharrelson8286]

22:22 bookmark

[@greyorbutshek5090]

Why is everybody talking about red dead?

[@Rip_Van_Winkle01]

And who are you
Rip Van Winkle
Huh

[@XIIIIlX]

who else is here cuz they have to write a god dam essay on this book :(

[@crystalhughes07]

Me

[@Loveelyyart]

yes and i have to hand it this Saturday 😭✋

[@jarieldiccerson173]

his face entirely consist of NOOSSEE😂

[@jonahpadgett138]

who is here bc there dyslexic and can't read?

[@barbarafisher1517]

I heard Milton was after him

[@isaiahhughes1304]

25:22

[@greyorbutshek5090]

Nice pfp

[@SteepTech]

Привет Виталий Юрьевич!

[@brenth6723]

Only 20 years .. 55 not that old.

[@jenplusbloops4176]

BEN THAR DONE THAT ABOUT 1988.

[@BRO_Adventures]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ok

[@behnoush76]

I wanna see the story

[@Lnblackberry48]

No one fucking cares

[@NikeShoe]

LMAHIFOHOVDH

[@joekoger6461]

It would be a good movie to see 🎥

[@femmemachete]

Play RDR2.

[@tarabound]

89⁹⁹⁹ you have the 99999⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹ and it still doesn't ¹1 that

[@behnoush76]

Shit

[@charliewerder7840]

you are a bad was

[@behnoush76]

Not good

[@ellie698]

Good grief, what a boring, long-winded story

[@woulddrow540]

great narration

[@NN-nd5nm]

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