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    Sesame and Lilies (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By John Ruskin

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    First published in 1865, Ruskin’s two lectures on educational reform codify Victorian ideals of men and women.  In “Of Kings’ Treasuries,” Ruskin critiques contemporary manhood, while in “Of Queens’ Gardens,” he urges women to be educated to serve as the moral guides of men. An intriguing look into the roles of men, women, and the family in the nineteenth century.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateApr 26, 2011
    ISBN9781411451445
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    • 2/5
      I couldn't decipher who wrote the short commentary in the back of the book entitled "The Personality of Ruskin", Arthur Quiller-Couch or Sybil Wragge probably, but they were right I think. Ruskin came across to me as an opinionated bigot who was very pleased with himself and whom I would not have liked at all. Yes, he wrote and lectured some 150 years ago and our social mores have changed considerably, but he made me uncomfortable. I like the physical book though. The Kings Treasuries of Literature series is delightfully designed and produced.
    • 4/5
      A book is essentially not a talking thing, but a written thing; and written, not with a view of mere communication, but of permanence. The book of talk is printed only because its author cannot speak to thousands o people at once; if he could, he would---the volume is mere multiplication of his voice. You cannot talk to your friend in India; if you could, you would; you write instead: that is mere conveyance of voice. But a book is written, not to multiply the voice merely, not to carry it merely, but to perpetuate it. The author has something to say which he perceives to be true and useful, or helpfully beautiful. So far as he knows, no one has yet said it; so far as he knows, no one else can say it. He is bound to say it, clearly and melodiously if he may; clearly at all events. In the sum of his life he finds this to be the thing, or group of things, manifest to him; ---this, the piece of true knowledge, or sight, which his share of sunshine and earth has permitted him to seize. He would fain set it down for ever; engrave it on rock, if he could; saying, "This is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved, and hated, like another; my life was as the vapour, and is not; but this I saw and knew: this, if anything is worth your memory." That is his "writing"; it is, in his small human way, and with whatever degree of true inspiration is in him, his inscription, or scripture. That is a "Book.""