Traffic consists of two different pieces. The first is a speech where John Rushkin is asked to talk about an Exchange but he just tells them he couldn't care less and talks about other things instead. This part was mildly interesting, but in fact very forgettable. The second half was worse, and I ha...
John Ruskin was a Victorian art critic, as well as a philanthropist, speech-giver and painter. This book contains two of his works, a speech called Traffic, given in Bradford to some men who wanted his thoughts on their new Exchange building and an essay called The Roots of Honour, which concerns ec...
IntroductionChronologyFurther ReadingCommentary--The King of the Golden River, or The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria (1841)from The Stones of Venice, Volume II: The Sea-Stories (1853)Commentary--The Nature of Gothicfrom The Two Paths: Lectures on Art and its application to Decoration and Manufac...
Extracts from Ruskin's book The Stones of Venice in which he examines architecture as a way of understanding the political economy, social structure and cultural framework of Britain and other countries he has experienced.Ruskin is radical, humanitarian, visionary. His insight is profound and he cha...
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of course, the fair, blue eyes and blonde haired benjamin on the family prevails over his evil black brothers with small eyes. cut the paragraph that sets out the story in a decidedly white supremacist tone, and it is sort of a moral and charming children's story.
nice anthology of excepts, short stories, poems, etc about Italy. I was introduced or reacquainted with authors I'd like to get to know better.
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