The Stones of Venice · the Sea-Stories
- Authors
- Ruskin, John
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Tags
- art , history , classics , travel
- ISBN
- 9780306812866
- Date
- 1853-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.65 MB
- Lang
- en
John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this city are exquisitely expressed in *The Stones of Venice*. This edition contains Ruskin's famous essay "The Nature of Gothic," a marvelously descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration. As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank God I am here, it is a Paradise of Cities."