Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving | Full Audiobook |

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  • This week, our Tale is 'Rip Van Winkle' by Washington Irving. While it draws on a variety of old stories and fairy tales which give it a timeless quality, it was written in 1819, and although it is set in the Catskills, Irving had never actually been to them before he penned his tale.
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ความคิดเห็น • 81

  • @GebTheNerb
    @GebTheNerb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    The story of Rip Van Winkle… a true tuberculosis classic.

    • @lumbagoman420
      @lumbagoman420 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That story is for Taticus Kilgore

    • @user-zo7kb5wz2w
      @user-zo7kb5wz2w 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Huh? Good day sir😅

  • @pavannair6469
    @pavannair6469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    Did he meet the pinkertons?

    • @Griimmm_
      @Griimmm_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Good one😂

    • @vanhalen-zg9uy
      @vanhalen-zg9uy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      IF RIP VAN WINKLES REAL NAME IS JOHN MARSTON THEN YOUR QUESTION WOULD BE CORRECT

    • @rip-van-winkle4317
      @rip-van-winkle4317 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      YES…HE…DID

    • @bensalter7997
      @bensalter7997 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@vanhalen-zg9uy Sorry for laughing at you.

  • @tomallen8761
    @tomallen8761 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Martin Luther King Jr.:
    “I am sure that most of you have read that arresting little story from the pen of Washington Irving entitled "Rip Van Winkle." The one thing that we usually remember about the story is that Rip Van Winkle slept twenty years. But there is another point in that little story that is almost completely overlooked. It was the sign in the Inn, from which Rip went up in the mountain for his long sleep.
    When Rip Van Winkle went up into the mountain, the sign had a picture of King George the Third of England. When he came down twenty years later the sign had a picture of George Washington, the first president of the United States. When Rip Van Winkle looked up at the picture of George Washington-and looking at the picture he was amazed-he was completely lost. He knew not who he was.
    And this reveals to us that the most striking thing about the story of Rip Van Winkle is not merely that Rip slept twenty years, but that he slept through a revolution. While he was peacefully snoring up in the mountain a revolution was taking place that at points would change the course of history-and Rip knew nothing about it. He was asleep. Yes, he slept through a revolution. And one of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through a revolution.”

  • @kathrynschine577
    @kathrynschine577 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Brilliantly told, brilliantly read.
    Thoroughly enjoyed.
    Thankyou!

  • @D824YT
    @D824YT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    Do Jim Milton next

    • @Griimmm_
      @Griimmm_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Agreed😭

    • @ansarahsan5971
      @ansarahsan5971 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Or maybe Tacitus Kilgore

    • @cydgi3876
      @cydgi3876 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      What about Aiden O’Malley ?

    • @HollyGameShow
      @HollyGameShow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Leviticus Cornwall it is

    • @mr.apocalypse5143
      @mr.apocalypse5143 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@cydgi3876 Or Hoagie Macintosh

  • @ashleyrigatoni702
    @ashleyrigatoni702 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ahhh, the coziest narrator ever. As welcome as a faithful pair of billy boots and a well-thumbed pipe. Well done, sir.

  • @thomasms9916
    @thomasms9916 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wonderful story. When I am hunting on a hill in Mechlinburg County in Virginia, I often think of that tale. I believe I know Dame Van Winkel first hand.

  • @kaliemunson7321
    @kaliemunson7321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Begins at 1:44

  • @thetooginator153
    @thetooginator153 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Nicely done! I read this many decades ago, and didn’t understand it like I do now (the history of Dutch settlements and the American Revolution). Thank you for your excellent work!

  • @owenwatson7598
    @owenwatson7598 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is a thrilling and ageless classic that should be read by everyone of the literati class who is in search of a tranquil shade to amuse his/her melancholic spirits. A great work.

  • @analeticiagallardo2314
    @analeticiagallardo2314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Last time I heard this was some 25 years ago as a little girl my grandmother read to me from a book of fairytales with the most beautiful illustrations. Rip Van Winkle was my favourite it really captured my imagination. But in that version the men he met in the mountains where dwarves or elves. Anyway I really enjoyed your narration. Thanks for the trip down memory lane! 💗🙂

  • @ashleycook6025
    @ashleycook6025 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We're reading this for my American Literature class.
    Fun fact from printouts handed out from our instructor to supplement the lesson: Washington Irving is credited with being the first American to make a living as a writer.

  • @claycheese3007
    @claycheese3007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    My sister and I watched rip van winkle as kids in the 80s..it was a marionette movie and to this this day we still cannot find it anywhere..it was late 70s early 80s..it must of been one of a kind😒

    • @aspenguy
      @aspenguy ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/2KQJUv-WTfc/w-d-xo.html

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    A lazy husband was the man Rip; Shiftless and unkempt a bottle to nip; Up to the mountains he went; Asleep twenty years his time was spent; Returned a venerated old man from his trip.

  • @natalijayork
    @natalijayork 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you!

  • @elislyfe_9993
    @elislyfe_9993 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Can you do Aiden O’ Malley next?

  • @-Buzzy_Bee-
    @-Buzzy_Bee- ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you 🌹

  • @marijanesic1275
    @marijanesic1275 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Awesome reading! Very clear and expressive voice. Thank you so much! I'm prepared for my exam now :D

  • @TeamMINE_
    @TeamMINE_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Is his real name John Marston?

  • @richardstrachmesserschmiti4979
    @richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I don’t find any of these old stories dated , they are still true , we are demoralized.

    • @David-qe9np
      @David-qe9np 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh please

    • @richardstrachmesserschmiti4979
      @richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@David-qe9np fool
      Listen to DUNE , so called modern
      Yet when the kalergie “ Kabbalist “ plan is literally showed to you , you deny the Alexander Dugan and Yuri Bezenoff plans
      It’s really amazing how only Goerbels, George Lincoln Rockwell and Pastor Wickstrom can see what is so obvious to Barbra Spector and Ben gurian
      But , these college educated quasi intellectuals can only say oh please
      Wow , that’s demographics and demoralizing
      Must be GOD
      Only GOD , could do this
      Straight outta the Bible
      Blind the masses for his ???
      It’s beginning to look a lot like eugenics, a Soviet gulag
      Just give your consent
      They incrementally connect
      All the F N laws
      Immigration
      Is
      Miscegenation
      Quo Bono?

  • @plantain.1739
    @plantain.1739 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks man.

  • @nathaniel.7172
    @nathaniel.7172 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Who are you? Rip van winkle.. hmm

  • @sammieebearr
    @sammieebearr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I really enjoyed this, thank you. But there were a lot of skips than in my story where full paragraphs, words and sentences were cut out. It was extremly irritating.

  • @brendanward2991
    @brendanward2991 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Rip falls asleep a loyal subject of King George III and wakes up a free citizen of the United States. A terrible beauty is born.

    • @a-10thunderboltii24
      @a-10thunderboltii24 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Terrible beauty?

    • @CelebChatsAI
      @CelebChatsAI 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hey 👋🏽
      Hey
      Steep

    • @user-zt6cj6sn8i
      @user-zt6cj6sn8i ปีที่แล้ว +2

      William Butler Yeats wrote, Ireland had "changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born." The victims themselves sensed that theirs was a blood sacrifice that presaged rebirth and renewal, that their deaths might some day be seen as the secular incarnation of a sacred season

  • @SillyDanny87
    @SillyDanny87 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you :^)

  • @chris72.
    @chris72. หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember the story as a kid but the story I heard had music in the background and it had dwarves giving him some kind of drink that put him to sleep for 20 years.
    Where is that version?

  • @ibrahimshaffi6282
    @ibrahimshaffi6282 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    He sounds alot like Jim Milton

  • @jonathanwhite8904
    @jonathanwhite8904 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was not expecting Robert from in deep geek! Holy crap!

  • @LeoVEggers
    @LeoVEggers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Well read, but the text is incomplete.

  • @chrissyofoldstones3210
    @chrissyofoldstones3210 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent, Robert 👍🏽

  • @terriiiii
    @terriiiii 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It’s seems from my version, you miss several sentences

  • @GodLovesYou531
    @GodLovesYou531 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When you fall asleep for five minutes in class:

  • @user-zt6cj6sn8i
    @user-zt6cj6sn8i ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you. But i don't understand why you omit any sentence or paragraph that describes Dame Van Winkle as a tyrant or Van himself as a hen-pecked husband?

  • @vaibhavprakash3402
    @vaibhavprakash3402 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Do Tacitus Kilgore next

  • @krakentacos
    @krakentacos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm looking for the "Raven" at Patreon, but do not see it...Great reading Robert!!!

  • @Skkrrrrt
    @Skkrrrrt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    We all know that his real name is
    *John Marston*

  • @justurlocaldepressedguy7224
    @justurlocaldepressedguy7224 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just knew about this

  • @jenniferwood144
    @jenniferwood144 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you.

  • @timolaf2798
    @timolaf2798 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I really like how this is read, but I was looking for an unabridged reading, so I must sadly look elsewhere. ☹️

    • @eugeneso7738
      @eugeneso7738 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think this is the unabridged, original version.

  • @slow_me
    @slow_me 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is so helpful. Thank you! :)

  • @al3411
    @al3411 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    One of my life's task. Gracia

  • @r.hemalatha5403
    @r.hemalatha5403 ปีที่แล้ว

    👌👌👌

  • @audreygagne8243
    @audreygagne8243 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dang…

  • @sgtjitters8980
    @sgtjitters8980 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never heard this story first time, report back in the comments after

    • @sgtjitters8980
      @sgtjitters8980 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pretty good, though I think the moral of the story is lost to me

  • @taotzu1339
    @taotzu1339 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like the Rip Van Flintstones version better.

  • @stevenadkins7611
    @stevenadkins7611 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    rip van winkle was the first alien abduction lol

  • @nickg1743
    @nickg1743 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Are you Phillip Schofield?

  • @adventureswitheddie7862
    @adventureswitheddie7862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    noice you should show your patrons at the end of your vids

  • @Promises101
    @Promises101 ปีที่แล้ว

    236

  • @billjones9204
    @billjones9204 ปีที่แล้ว

    You the bloke that has the lord of the rings channel?

  • @barryffay
    @barryffay 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is incomprehensible to me that the reader is so besotted with WOKE ideology that he actually edits out sentences from this masterpiece! God save us from the woke crowd!

  • @CoffeeKatastrophe
    @CoffeeKatastrophe ปีที่แล้ว

    More like F Van Winkle

  • @justurlocaldepressedguy7224
    @justurlocaldepressedguy7224 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This sounds horrible and sound that time runs life runs