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Præterita 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 ...
'For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.' John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian Middle Ages; a social critic whose aspiration for, and disappointment in, the future of Great Britain was expressed in some of the most vibrant prose ...
Praeterita is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of the 19th century. Written by Ruskin in the 1880s between attacks of brain fever, it gives a fascinating account of his upbringing in a severely respectable Victorian household, his Continental travels, his friends and relations, and the development and refinement of his aesthetic tastes ...
23 de mai. de 2012 · John Ruskin was one of the most influential men of his day, and Praeterita, his autobiography, offers fascinating insights into many of the topics in which he was pre-eminent: art, architecture, J. M. W. Turner, nature, politics, and travel. This is the first major new edition since...
Buy Praeterita: Autobiography (Oxford Paperbacks) New by Ruskin, John, Clark, Kenneth (ISBN: 9780192812537) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
- John Ruskin
10 de mai. de 2012 · Praeterita. 'For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.'. John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian Middle Ages; a social critic whose aspiration for, and disappointment in, the future ...
10 de mai. de 2012 · Buy Praeterita (Oxford World's Classics) by Ruskin, John, O'Gorman, Francis (ISBN: 9780192802415) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
- John Ruskin
