This work (previously published in two volumes in 1985 and 2000) is a biography of John Ruskin, arguably the most influential 19th-century critic of art and society. Drawing on the complete text of Ruskin's diaries and many thousands of unpublished letters and other documents, Tim Hilton provides insight into Ruskin's literary achievement and tormented life. This edition also includes a new introduction by the author.
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[F]ar and away the best biography of Ruskin. We understand the man . . . better than we have ever understood him before. -- James Turner, Books & Culture
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"It has taken 100 years, but in Tim Hilton, Ruskin has found the champion he deserves." -Hilton Kramer, Wall Street Journal
"A masterpiece of investigative scholarship and a work of generous and engrossing humanity." -John Carey, Sunday Times
"The most readable and sympathetic [biography] that has yet appeared. . . . This biography achieves perspective on its subject's character and achievement and on the well-known dramas of his domestic life." -John Bayley, New York Review of Books
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John James Ruskin, the beloved father of the subject of this book, was born in Edinburgh in 1785. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John James, Denmark Hill, Herne Hill, John Ruskin, Christ Church, Rose La Touche, Guild of St George, Margaret Ruskin, Maria La Touche, The Stones of Venice, Joan Severn, George Allen, Working Men's College, Arthur Severn, Henry Acland, Royal Academy, Charles Eliot Norton, British Museum, The Queen of the Air, National Gallery, Sara Anderson, Burne Jones, Georgiana Cowper, John La Touche, Kate Greenaway New!
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John James Ruskin, the beloved father of the subject of this book, was born in Edinburgh in 1785. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John James, Denmark Hill, Herne Hill, John Ruskin, Christ Church, Rose La Touche, Guild of St George, Margaret Ruskin, Maria La Touche, The Stones of Venice, Joan Severn, George Allen, Working Men's College, Arthur Severn, Henry Acland, Royal Academy, Charles Eliot Norton, British Museum, The Queen of the Air, National Gallery, Sara Anderson, Burne Jones, Georgiana Cowper, John La Touche, Kate Greenaway New!
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- The Victorian Christian Socialists by Edward R. Norman on 6 pages
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- Elegy for an Age: The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature (Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series) by John D. Rosenberg on 4 pages
- John Ruskin: A Life by John Batchelor on 4 pages
- The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew by Susan K. Harris on 4 pages
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