John Ruskin: 114 books

Book cover of The Ethics of the Dust (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011

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.
Book cover of Frondes Agrestes (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011

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.
Book cover of Sésame et les Lys

Sésame et les Lys

Traduction, préface et notes de Marcel Proust

by John Ruskin
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2015

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...
Book cover of 20 Masterpieces of Fantasy Fiction Vol. 1: Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Tarzan of the Apes......
by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2019

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,...
Book cover of The Lamp of Memory
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008

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...
Book cover of The Queen of the Air
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012

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).
Book cover of The Pleasures of England
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

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...
Book cover of Proserpina Book I
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016

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...
Book cover of The Stones of Venice, Volume III
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

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,...
Book cover of Unto This Last
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

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...
Book cover of A Joy Forever
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

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...
Book cover of The King of the Golden River
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019

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!
Book cover of La Bible d’Amiens
by John Ruskin, Marcel Proust
Language: German
Release Date: February 5, 2016

  PRÉFACE DU TRADUCTEUR     I: AVANT-PROPOS     II : NOTRE-DAME D’AMIENS     III : JOHN RUSKIN     IV : P.-S.     LA BIBLE D’AMIENS     PRÉFACE     CHAPITRE PREMIER...
Book cover of The Stones of Venice, volume I
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

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,...
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