Praeterita

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "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 With a new Introduction by Tim HiltonRuskin, John is the author of 'Praeterita', published 2005 under ISBN 9781400043170 and ISBN 1400043174.