John Ruskin: 114 books

Book cover of Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The long abandoned purpose, of which the following pages begin some attempt at fulfilment, has been resumed at the request of a young English governess, that I would write some pieces of history which her pupils could gather some good out of;—the fruit of historical documents placed by modern educational systems at her disposal, being to them labour only, and sorrow.
Book cover of The Crown Of Wild Olive
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers (Complete)
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Yesterday evening I was looking over the first book in which I studied Botany,—Curtis's Magazine, published in 1795 at No. 3, St. George's Crescent, Blackfriars Road, and sold by the principal booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland. Its plates are excellent, so that I am always glad to find in it...
Book cover of The Complete Children Fantasy Fairy Tales Anthologies Collection (9 in 1)
by Jonathan Swift, John Ruskin, LEWIS CARROLL
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013

The King of the Golden River (1841), the history of modern fantasy literature is usually said to begin with George MacDonald, the Scottish author of such novels as The Princess and the Goblin and Phantastes (1858), the latter of which is widely considered to be the first fantasy novel ever written...
Book cover of On the Old Road: A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature (Complete)
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

In seven days more I shall be fifty-nine;—which (practically) is all the same as sixty; but, being asked by the wife of my dear old friend, W. H. Harrison, to say a few words of our old relations together, I find myself, in spite of all these years, a boy again,—partly in the mere thought of, and...
Book cover of The King of the Golden River (Illustrated)

The King of the Golden River (Illustrated)

Legend of Stiria – A Fairy Tale

by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2019

The richness of the Treasure Valley, high in the mountains of Stiria is lost through the evil of the owners, the two elder "Black Brothers", Hans and Schwartz, who in their foolishness mistreat Southwest Wind, Esquire, who in turn floods their valley, washing away their "liquid assets",...
Book cover of Elements of Drawing (Illustrated)

Elements of Drawing (Illustrated)

In Three Letters to Beginners

by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015

It may perhaps be thought, that in prefacing a manual of drawing, I ought to expatiate on the reasons why drawing should be learned; but those reasons appear to me so many and so weighty, that I cannot quickly state or enforce them. With the reader's permission, as this volume is too large already,...
Book cover of Val D'Arno
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of The Harbors Of England
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013

CONTENTS. • AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL PREFACE. • THE HARBORS OF ENGLAND.1 I. Dover34 II. Ramsgate36 III. Plymouth38 IV. Catwater40 V. Sheerness41 VI. Margate43 VII. Portsmouth46 VIII. Falmouth49 IX. Sidmouth51 X. Whitby52 XI. Deal54 XII. Scarborough56
Book cover of Stones of Venice
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

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,...
Book cover of The Stones of Venice I
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

It was originally intended that this Work should consist of two volumes only; the subject has extended to three. The second volume, however, will conclude the account of the ancient architecture of Venice. The third will embrace the Early, the Roman, and the Grotesque Renaissance; and an Index, which,...
Book cover of Les Pierres de Venise
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015

Ce livre offre une splendide description de l’architecture de Venise avec quelques belles envolées poétiques très bien traduites par Mathilde Crémieux. Un merveilleux guide d’une ville, avec des informations intéressantes et des références de premier ordre. ll n’est pas étonnant que ce livre ait été un ouvrage de référence pendant longtemps.
Book cover of The Ethics of the Dust
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019

The following lectures were really given, in substance, at a girls' school (far in the country); which, in the course of various experiments on the possibility of introducing some better practice of drawing into the modern scheme of female education, I visited frequently enough to enable the children...
Book cover of The Crown of Wild Olive
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019

It may be proved, with much certainty, that God intends no man to live in this world without working: but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work. It is written, "in the sweat of thy brow," but it was never written, "in the breaking of thine...
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