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The wider sea : a life of John Ruskin

Title
The wider sea : a life of John Ruskin / John Dixon Hunt.
Author
Hunt, John Dixon.
Publication
New York : Viking, 1982.

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Description
xvi, 512 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
  • Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
  • Ruskin, John 1819-1900
  • Ruskin, John
  • 1800-1899
  • Authors, English > 19th century > Biography
  • Authors, English
  • Biografie
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Scottish inheritance -- Family circle: 1818-1823 -- Childhood at Herne Hill-English travels: 1823-1836 -- "My destiny fixed": Alps, Italy, Adèle Domecq: 1832-1836 -- "I assume my seat of learning"-Oxford: 1836-1840 -- "My two bournes of earth": Italy and Switzerland: 1840-1842 -- "Building of a large book"-Modern Painters -- Alone in Italy at last: 1843-1845 -- "This match-making world": 1846-1848 -- In society and in print: 1848-1849 -- Venice -- Verities of Venice and London: 1849-1852 -- Order of release: 1852-1854 -- "Plenty to do": 1854-1860 -- "Wrong at both ends": 1860-1864 -- "Busy again": 1864-1866 -- "Prosperpine permitting": 1866-1869 -- Extension of education: 1870-1874 -- "Gloomy fight with things and myself": 1875-1878 -- "Monsoons and cyclones:" 1879-1889 -- His long home: 1889-1900 -- Postscriptum.
ISBN
  • 0670765783
  • 9780670765782
LCCN
82070128
OCLC
  • ocm08284304
  • 8284304
  • SCSB-80147
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library