Ruskin: 137 books

In a unique 1869 take on Greek mythology, the influential Victorian-Edwardian sage considers the myth of the goddess Athena. Ruskin asks us to consider Athena—“in the heavens, the earth, and the heart”—as a vital force in the material world channeled by those leading virtuous lives and also as “the directress of the imagination and will.”

The English social thinker John Ruskin’s famous trilogy of lectures on the subject of Greek myths of 'Cloud and Storm': Athena Chalinitis (Athena in the Heavens), Athena Keramitis (Athena in the Earth) and Athena Ergane (Athena in the Heart).

The Pleasures of England: Lectures given in Oxford written by John Ruskin. The Pleasures of England: Lectures Given in Oxford, During his Second Tenure of the Slade Professorship (delivered 1884, published 1884–85) (Works 33).  And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally...

‘To find happiness, look halfway between too little and too much.’ —Ruskin Bond *• Why be happy and how, and why not to worry if you think you are not. * *• Why it is easy to be happy, and how you can miss happiness even if it stands before you. * *• How a bird can fill you with joy...

Intimate, exhilarating writings on adventure, meditation, and life in the captivating wildness of the Himalayan Mountains—with contributions from Amitav Ghosh, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore, Peter Matthiessen, and more. For some, the Himalaya is a frontier against which people test themselves....

Published in 1872, this volume collects ten lectures that Ruskin gave at Oxford University on the subject of the relation of the natural sciences to art—including, “The Function in Art of the Faculty called by the Greeks s???a,” “The Relation of Wise Art to Wise Science,” and “Introduction to Elementary Exercises in Historic Art: The Heraldic Ordinaries.”

This second in a three-volume series on Venetian art and architecture focuses on the Byzantine and Gothic periods. Ruskin discusses the palaces belonging to each era, along with the “nature” of the Gothic and the beautiful islands of Murano and Torcello in the Byzantine period.

It is mortifying enough to write,—but I think thus much ought to be written,—concerning myself, as 'the author of Modern Painters.' In three months I shall be fifty years old: and I don't at this hour—ten o'clock in the morning of the two hundred and sixty-eighth day of my forty-ninth year—know...

• Why you must pause, look up and out of the window. • Why a geranium flowering on the windowsill and wind soughing in the pines is serenity • How rain drumming on the roof can still the mind as effectively as a night of meditation • How to recognize serenity once you...

Of all the buildings in Venice, later in date than the final additions to the Ducal Palace, the noblest is, beyond all question, that which, having been condemned by its proprietor, not many years ago, to be pulled down and sold for the value of its materials, was rescued by the Austrian government,...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Elements of Drawing. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by John Ruskin, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs...

Unfairly convicted and made to serve his enemy, Fergus McGowan is the only one who can help the very people he is forced to hurt. Armed only with his unique understanding of industrial-age machinery and the analytical insights of the Cambridge mathematician Charles Babbage, he must free not only himself...

Noemi Ochana is a rookie cargo lifter on the interplanetary freighter Devil’s Broker, where she drives her mech in the cargo bay, stacking crates of processed ore. It’s her first job off of the orbital station where she grew up, and she practically had to sell her soul to get it. Until she fulfills...

The greater part of the following treatise remains in the exact form in which it was read at Manchester; but the more familiar passages of it, which were trusted to extempore delivery, have been since written with greater explicitness and fullness than I could give them in speaking; and a considerable...