John Ruskin: 114 books

This 1866 book is comprised of the lectures that Ruskin gave to various girls’ schools on the fundamentals of mineralogy. Rather than in a lecture format, however, the information is conveyed in the form of a delightful dialogue between Ruskin and his students. Interesting and engaging.

In an effort to give his friends and the public what they wanted, Ruskin republished parts of his monumental Modern Painters in this volume: a collection of selections a dear friend decided were most relevant at the time. Here are Ruskin’s “Principles of Art,” “Power and Office of Imagination,” “Education,” “Moralities,” and musings on different aspects of nature.

Le texte de Ruskin a 150 ans. L’abord en est aride.... Mais dans ces conférences sur le rôle de la lecture et sur l’éducation des filles, le cours paisible des premières pages enfle vite sous le vent de la révolte et de l’imprécation : esprit national, christianisme, capitalisme, dans...

This volume contains the following 20 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Anonymous: “Beowulf” Anonymous: “The Epic of Gilgamesh” Barrie, J. M.: “Peter Pan” Baum, L. Frank: “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” Bulgakov, Mikhail: “The Master and Margarita” Burroughs,...

John Ruskin overturned Victorian society’s ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is essential – not for financial gain, but to communicate eternal human truths. Throughout...

The English social thinker John Ruskin’s famous trilogy of lectures on the subject of Greek myths of 'Cloud and Storm': Athena Chalinitis (Athena in the Heavens), Athena Keramitis (Athena in the Earth) and Athena Ergane (Athena in the Heart).

The Pleasures of England: Lectures given in Oxford written by John Ruskin. The Pleasures of England: Lectures Given in Oxford, During his Second Tenure of the Slade Professorship (delivered 1884, published 1884–85) (Works 33).  And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally...

It is mortifying enough to write,—but I think thus much ought to be written,—concerning myself, as 'the author of Modern Painters.' In three months I shall be fifty years old: and I don't at this hour—ten o'clock in the morning of the two hundred and sixty-eighth day of my forty-ninth year—know...

Of all the buildings in Venice, later in date than the final additions to the Ducal Palace, the noblest is, beyond all question, that which, having been condemned by its proprietor, not many years ago, to be pulled down and sold for the value of its materials, was rescued by the Austrian government,...

The greater part of the following treatise remains in the exact form in which it was read at Manchester; but the more familiar passages of it, which were trusted to extempore delivery, have been since written with greater explicitness and fullness than I could give them in speaking; and a considerable...

The title of this book,—or, more accurately, of its subject;—for no author was ever less likely than I have lately become, to hope for perennial pleasure to his readers from what has cost himself the most pains,—will be, perhaps, recognised by some as the last clause of the line chosen from...

The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

  PRÉFACE DU TRADUCTEUR     I: AVANT-PROPOS     II : NOTRE-DAME D’AMIENS     III : JOHN RUSKIN     IV : P.-S.     LA BIBLE D’AMIENS     PRÉFACE     CHAPITRE PREMIER...

Since the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set upon its sands: the thrones of Tyre, Venice, and England. Of the First of these great powers only the memory remains; of the Second, the ruin; the Third, which inherits their greatness,...