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Praeterita and Dilecta

Hardcover • 2005 • English • 1. edition

Praeterita and Dilecta

By Ruskin, John;Hilton, Timothy

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About the book

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 artis...Show more

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ISBN

9781857152791

Publisher

Everyman's Library

Published year

2005

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Praeterita and Dilecta

Format

Hardcover

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