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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 is done for the money. But what Ruskin wants to know is what the ultimate effect and product of their work is?
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"The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century" by John Ruskin. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal...
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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.
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In the three volumes of The Stones of Venice (1851-1853) Ruskin championed the Gothic style of architecture. "Written for the Help of the Few Travellers Who Still Care for Her Monuments," this 1877 volume, intended as a sequel, continues the influential critic's love affair with one of the world's most beautiful cities.
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Published in 1872, this volume collects ten lectures that Ruskin gave at Oxford University on the subject of the relation of the natural sciences to art-including, "The Function in Art of the Faculty called by the Greeks" "The Relation of Wise Art to Wise Science," and "Introduction to Elementary Exercises in Historic Art: The Heraldic Ordinaries."
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Culled from lectures delivered at Oxford from 1883-1885, this collection of Ruskin's critiques of the overall condition of England's artistic life, past and present, is divided into two sections. The "Art" lectures deal with three traditions of art: the Realistic, the Mythic and the Classic. His lecture "Fairy Land," included in this section, examines a newly emerging literary genre: fantasy. The "Pleasure" lectures range from "Learning, Faith, and...