| King of the Golden River Contributor(s): Ruskin, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0848806204 ISBN-13: 9780848806200 Publisher: Amereon Limited OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1160 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.68" W x 8.77" (0.74 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "The King of the Golden River" is a delightful fairy tale told with all Ruskin's charm of style, his appreciation of mountain scenery, and with his usual insistence upon drawing a moral. None the less, it is quite unlike his other writings. All his life long his pen was busy interpreting nature and pictures and architecture, or persuading to better views those whom he believed to be in error, or arousing, with the white heat of a prophet's zeal, those whom he knew to be unawakened. There is indeed a good deal of the prophet about John Ruskin. Though essentially an interpreter with a singularly fine appreciation of beauty, no man of the nineteenth century felt more keenly that he had a mission, and none was more loyal to what he believed that mission to be. |