Praeterita (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
“No autobiographer surpasses [Ruskin] in freshness and fullness of memory, nor in the power of giving interest to the apparently commonplace . . . The story fascinates.”—SIR LESLIE STEPHEN“[Praeterita] is certainly the most charming thing that he ever gave to the world, and is one of the most . . . exquisiteConfessionsin the language.”—FREDERIC HARRISON“[Ruskin] has written nothing better, it seems to me, than some pages of this book, whether of description or reflection.”—CHARLES ELIOT NORTON