Author: John Ruskin
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: John Ruskin
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 037571264X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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As a memoir elevated to the level of fine art, John Ruskin’s Praeterita stands alongside The Education of Henry Adams and the confessions of Augustine, Rousseau, and Tolstoy. A luminous account of his childhood and youth, Praeterita is the last major work of the revolutionary nineteenth-century critic. Written in the lucid intervals between the bouts of dementia that haunted his final years, Praeterita tells the story of Ruskin’s early life—the formation of his taste and intellect through education, travels in Europe, and encounters with great works of art and artists. In abandoning the traditional linear mode of autobiography, Ruskin opened up the form and was an important influence on Proust. He also provided a vivid, detailed portrait of pre-Victorian and Victorian England that is as indispensable an account of its era as Samuel Pepys’s diary is of England in the seventeenth century. This edition of Praeterita is accompanied by Dilecta, Ruskin’s own selection from his letters, diaries, and other writings. In these more private writings we get a fascinating glimpse of genius as it flickers in and out of madness. Together these two works illuminate the life and mind of a towering intellect who left an extraordinary mark on the history of aesthetics and culture, and on the very course of autobiography. With a new Introduction by Tim Hilton

Author: John Ruskin
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Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley)
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Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Ruskin John Ruskin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474472230
Category : Art critics
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Praeterita is perhaps the best-loved of all the fruits of Ruskin's many-sided and tormented genius. This exceptional biography - the first of Ruskin's works in the Whitehouse edition - simultaneously presents a deeply reflective portrait of an early 19th-century Protestant family - its genuine piety, its severities, its suffocating possessive affections - and the product (at once intellectually brilliant and emotionally damaged) of its educational system.

Author: John Ruskin
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Category : Art critics
Languages : en
Pages : 924

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Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.

Author: John Ruskin
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Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Author: John Ruskin
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Languages : en
Pages : 846

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Author: John Ruskin
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Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Author: John Ruskin
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Languages : en
Pages : 350

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