Praeterita and Diclecta

To call Praeterita an autobiography is to tell only part of the truth. A book like no other, by oneof the greatest masters of English prose., it is less a narrative than the prismatic sotry of an extraordinary mind and a passionate heart told in terms of the author''s aesthetic education. Ruskin was not merely the most important anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century: for his admirers - who included Proust - he was a Tolstoyan figure with the magic of an artist and the moral authority of a sage. Yet above all he was loved as a personality by friends and readers alilke, and it is the individual human qualitites which shine through the mercurial pages of Praeterita>

Product details

• Authors: John Ruskin
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2005
• EAN: 9781857152791
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-279-1
• No. of pages: 704
• Dimensions: 33 mm x 212 mm x 135 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Theory of art, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, English, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, ART / Criticism & Theory, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Theory of architecture