num_pages: 564
description: 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
language: English
title: Praeterita and Dilecta
titlecomplete: Praeterita and Dilecta
genres: British Literature
ratings_count: 8
series: Cambridge Library Collection - Works of John Ruskin
publisher: Everyman's Library