As a memoir elevated to the level of fine art; John Ruskinrsquo;s Praeterita stands alongside The Education of Henry Adams and the confessions of Augustine; Rousseau; and Tolstoy. A luminous account of his childhood and youth; Praeterita is the last major work of the revolutionary nineteenth-century critic. Written in the lucid intervals between the bouts of dementia that haunted his final years; Praeterita tells the story of Ruskinrsquo;s early lifemdash;the formation of his taste and intellect through education; travels in Europe; and encounters with great works of art and artists. In abandoning the traditional linear mode of autobiography; Ruskin opened up the form and was an important influence on Proust. He also provided a vivid; detailed portrait of pre-Victorian and Victorian England that is as indispensable an account of its era as Samuel Pepysrsquo;s diary is of England in the seventeenth century. This edition of Praeterita is accompanied by Dilecta; Ruskinrsquo;s own selection from his letters; diaries; and other writings. In these more private writings we get a fascinating glimpse of genius as it flickers in and out of madness. Together these two works illuminate the life and mind of a towering intellect who left an extraordinary mark on the history of aesthetics and culture; and on the very course of autobiography. With a new Introduction by Tim Hilton(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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