Rip Van Winkle's Republic Washington Irving the last commissioned work by

the last commissioned work by Henri Matisse

In The Cider Revival

but following Prohibition when orchards were destroyed and neglected

The irresistible ickiness of Monster Eyeballs

giclée printDimensions: 3 1/2" H x  2 1/8" W

Rip Van Winkle's Republic Washington Irving the last commissioned work byIn this distinctive collection, historians and literary scholars come together to reassess Washington Irving's imaginative world and complex cultural legacy. Alternately a satirist and a nostalgia merchant, Irving was ever absorbed in reconstituting a lost past, which the volume dubs "Rip Van Winkle's Republic." The assembled scholars explore issues of Anglo American culture, the power of imagery, race, and the treatment of time and history in