Selections
- Author: J. Ruskin
- Date Published: June 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521109260
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This selection from the works of the writer and critic John Ruskin (1819–1900) is designed to illustrate the development of Ruskin's personality and literary style. What emerges is an extraordinary record of Ruskin's life and times, spanning most of the nineteenth century. Beginning with his reflections on his childhood, the volume proceeds chronologically, through his education and his European travels. It includes extracts from major essays on Venice, and observations on a range of contemporary writers, artists and architects, and it finishes with a moving passage on the sorrows of old age. The selections were made by the prominent Cambridge scholar A. C. Benson from the Library Edition of Ruskin's works, and the volume was first published in 1927. Cambridge University Press is delighted to bring this classic edition back into print.
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- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521109260
- length: 248 pages
- dimensions: 203 x 127 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.27kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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Introduction
1. The style of Ruskin
2. Childhood
3. First writings
4. His own writings
5. First sight of the Alps
6. Switzerland
7. Ruskin at Oxford
8. The Rhone
9. The Jura
10. The alps
11. Calais church
12. The approach to Venice
13. Venice as painted by Canaletti, Proust, Stanfield and Turner
14. Venice
15. St. Mark's Venice
16. The interior of St. Mark's Venice
17. Working days in Italy
18. Gothic architecture
19. Tombs
20. The artist's work
21. The great artist
22. Greek art
23. Fidelity in art
24. Nature in childhood
25. The sea
26. Sea waves
27. The colour of iron
28. Pine-trees
29. Water
30. Grass
31. The fly
32. The fly and the dog - freedom and captivity
33. The snake
34. Birds
35. The dove
36. St George
37. A sleeping beauty
38. The bow of a boat
39. Ships
40. The fighting Téméraire
41. The scapegoat
42. Two windmills
43. Steel-engraving
44. Early reading
45. Bible reading
Reading and writing
45. Psalms
46. Hymns
47. The homes of Scott
48. Sir Walter Scott
49. Xenophon's Economicus
50. The birthplace of St Bernard
51. The family of Veronese
52. Albert Dürer
53. Turner's youth
54. Frederick Walker
55. Three architects
56. Restoration
57. A gentleman
58. The use and abuse of money
59. Recreation
60. The merchant's trade
61. Conventionalism in art
62. Vocation and education
63. Poverty
64. Art and religion
65. The pathetic fallacy
66. Mind and body
67. Fear
68. The imperfection of all good art
69. A confession of failure
70. The sorrow of age
Index.
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