This file includes: Arata Pentelici (lectures on the elemens of sculpture), Ariadne Florentina (lectures on wood and metal engraving, The Ethics of the Dust (lectures to housewives on the elements of crystallization), Giotto and His Works in Padua, Harbors of Engalnd, Hortus Incusus (messsages from the wood to the garden), A Joy Forever and Its Price on the Market, The King of the Golden River, Lectures on Architecture and Painting, Lectures on Art, Lectures on Landscape, Love's Meinie (le...

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, Edgar Rice: “A Princess of Mars” Burroughs, Edgar Rice: “Tarzan of the Apes” Carroll, Lewis: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” Carroll, Lewis: “Through the Looking Glass” Chesterton, G. K.: “The Man Who Was Thursday...

The work now laid before the public originated in indignation at the shallow and false criticism of the periodicals of the day on the works of the great living artist to whom it principally refers. It was intended to be a short pamphlet, reprobating the matter and style of those critiques, and pointing out their perilous tendency, as guides of public feeling. But, as point after point presented itself for demonstration, I found myself compelled to amplify what was at first a letter to the ...

24 Complete Works of John RuskinA Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of SculptureAriadne FlorentinaFrondes AgrestesHortus InclususLectures on ArtLectures on LandscapeLove's MeinieModern Painters Volume IProserpina, Volume 1Saint UrsulaThe Elements of DrawingThe Ethics of the DustThe King of the Golden RiverThe King of the Golden R...

The 'Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes' collection represents the pinnacle of literary anthologies, traversing the broad and rich landscape of human thought and creativity. Spanning various genres and styles, the compilation captures the profound diversities of intellectual discourse and artistic expression from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Among its highlights, readers will encounter philosophical treatises alongside poignant narratives, as timeless lyricism intermingles with scien...

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, if it forget their example, may be led through prouder eminence to less pitied destruction. The exaltation, the sin, and the punishment of Tyre have been recorded for us, in perhaps the most ...

John Ruskin's Stones of Venice opens as both a guide to the city's architecture and a meditation on the meaning of beauty, history, and faith. From the first approach by water, Venice appears as a shimmering vision of campaniles, lagoon light, and the Ducal Palace, yet Ruskin insists that this enchantment has long been distorted by romance and legend. He turns instead to the city's true origins, tracing the geological forces that formed the Venetian coast, the Po delta, and the marshlands ...

John Ruskin's study of Venice becomes a sweeping meditation on how architecture reveals the moral life of a civilization. He contrasts the sculptural richness of medieval streets with the plainness of modern thoroughfares, then traces Renaissance architecture through three phases—early, central, and grotesque—arguing that its first corruptions grew as much from weakened Gothic habits as from classical influence. From there, he examines decadence in ornament, defining true corruption not as...

John Ruskin's sweeping study of Venice begins as both a detective story and a moral inquiry. Frustrated by uncertain scholarship, he bases his account on years of firsthand observation, careful measurement, and close inspection of buildings altered by weather, restoration, and centuries of change. His aim is to trace Venetian architecture, especially its Gothic character, through evidence rather than assumption, and to teach readers how to judge architecture for themselves. Opening with a ...

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."

In a secluded and mountainous part of Stiria there was, in old time, a valley of the most surprising and luxuriant fertility. It was surrounded, on all sides, by steep and rocky mountains, rising into peaks, which were always covered with snow, and from which a number of torrents descended in constant cataracts. One of these fell westward, over the face of a crag so high, that, when the sun had set to everything else, and all below was darkness, his beams still shone full upon this waterfa...

Having been urged to bring out a new edition of the volume first edited by me in 1880, and having willingly accepted the invitation to do so, it will naturally be expected that I should give some account of the circumstances which have led me to take the somewhat unusual step of reviving a book which has for twelve years been lying in a state of suspended animation. On the first conception of this volume I applied to Messrs. Strahan, to produce it before the reading and thinking world. I s...