We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, for our 100th episode, we\u2019ll be reading "Rip Van Winkle" originally a short story by the American author Washington Irving, published in 1819.\xa0To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to\xa0snoozecast.com/plus.\n\nIt follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. Irving wrote it while living in England and later admitted he had never been to the Catskill Mountains.\xa0\n\n\u2014 read by 'V' \u2014\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices