John Ruskin: 114 books

Book cover of The King of the Golden River
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. “The King of the Golden River” is a delightful fairy tale told with all Ruskin's charm of style, his appreciation of mountain scenery, and with his usual insistence upon drawing a moral. None the less, it is...
Book cover of Arrows of the Chace - a collection of scattered n the daily newspapers 1840-1880 I
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016

Letters on Art: Art Criticism and Art Education. "Modern Painters;" a Reply. 1843 Art Criticism. 1843 The Arts as a Branch of Education. 1857 Art-Teaching by Correspondence. 1860 Public Institutions and the National Gallery. Danger to the National Gallery. 1847 The National Gallery. 1852 The British...
Book cover of The Pleasures of England
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic, stage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras."
Book cover of The Ethics of the Dust, Ten Lectures to Little Housewives
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic, stage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras."
Book cover of The Elements of Drawing

The Elements of Drawing

(In Three Letters to Beginners)

by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015

["The Elements of Drawing" was written during the winter of 1856. The First Edition was published in 1857; the Second followed in the same year, with some additions and slight alterations. The Third Edition consisted of sixth thousand, 1859; seventh thousand, 1860; and eighth thousand,...
Book cover of The Stones of Venice
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic, stage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras."
Book cover of The Queen of the Air, Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic, stage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras."
Book cover of La Bible d’Amiens
by John Ruskin, Marcel Proust
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016

Je voudrais donner au lecteur le désir et le moyen d’aller passer une journée à Amiens en une sorte de pèlerinage ruskinien. Ce n’était pas la peine de commencer par lui demander d’aller à Florence ou à Venise quand Ruskin a écrit sur Amiens...
Book cover of Lectures on Art (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Lectures on Art (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870

by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011

In 1869 Ruskin was appointed the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford. His inaugural lectures, delivered between February 8th and March 23rd of 1870, focused on the limits and elementary practice of art, and were published in book form later that year. In the lectures, Ruskin offers his keen insights...
Book cover of The Crown of Wild Olive (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

The Crown of Wild Olive (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War

by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011

This 1866 collection of essays on “Work,” “Traffic,” and “War,” begins with a preface condemning the human depletion of nature for what Ruskin saw as valueless gains. In this way, mining the ground for metals, water, and other resources parallels the work of the three lecture topics—all...
Book cover of The True and the Beautiful (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011

This 1869 anthology of Ruskin’s oeuvre really does range as wide as its title suggests. Ruskin’s gaze encompasses plants, animals, the sky, rivers, the waves of the sea, the sculptors of ancient Egypt, the Renaissance painters, color and form, Shakespeare, Byron, Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, utopianism, romance, patriotism, education, and “The Holy Comforter” in poetry and prose.
Book cover of Sesame and Lilies (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011

First published in 1865, Ruskin’s two lectures on educational reform codify Victorian ideals of men and women.  In “Of Kings’ Treasuries,” Ruskin critiques contemporary manhood, while in “Of Queens’ Gardens,” he urges women to be educated to serve as the moral guides of men. An intriguing look into the roles of men, women, and the family in the nineteenth century.
Book cover of Unto This Last
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Originally published in "Cornhill" magazine, "Unto This Last" is a series of four essays on the politics of economics. Considered by Ruskin as one of his most important works, "Unto This Last" argues that economics, art and science must have a foundation in morality. Ruskin, who cannot be strictly labeled...
Book cover of The Harbours of England (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011

In 1856, while Ruskin was in the midst of his monumental Modern Painters, the great British cultural theorist jumped at the chance to pen commentaries to accompany a dozen plates by J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851).  Ruskin’s illuminating text, the only book he wrote on commission, makes for a unique work in the annals of art history.
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