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  Parallel Lives

  Five Victorian Marriages

  by Phyllis Rose

  In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.
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  Angelmaker

  by Nick Harkaway

  From the author of the international best seller The Gone-Away World --a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir, and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale about a mobster's son and a retired secret agent who team up to save the world.   Joe Spork repairs clocks, a far cry from his late father, a flashy London gangster. But when Joe fixes one particularly unusual device,... (more)
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  Sesame and Lilies

  by John James Ruskin

  This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,... (more)
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  Millions for the Beast

  by D. N. Stewart

  After Marcus Brown, a former boxer, flees to Florida with his family when his life is threatened, he finds work as a repo man, with the hope of paying back his debts and returning to his Central American home. But when a judge leaps to his death off the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg, lurid videos are found in the trunk of his repossessed car, and soon Marcus and a co-worker find themselves in the center... (more)
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  Unto This Last and Other Writings

  by John Ruskin

  First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, "Unto this Last" is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had a considerable influence on the British socialist movement. And in making his powerful moral and aesthetic case against... (more)
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  Selected Writings

  by John Ruskin

  John Ruskin was the most powerful and influential art critic and social commentator of the Victorian nineteenth century. A true polymath, he wrote about nature, art, architecture, politics, history, myth and much more. All of his work is characterized by a clarity of vision as unsettling and intense now as it was for his first readers. This new selection includes wide-ranging extracts of Ruskin's texts, from the... (more)
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  John Ruskin

  The Early Years 1819-1859

  by Timothy Hilton

  This is the first volume of Hilton's authoritative biography of John Ruskin, the most influential nineteenth-century critic of art and society. It draws on the complete text of Ruskin's diaries and many thousands of unpublished letters and other documents to provide fresh insight into the background and content of Ruskin's numerous books.
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  Venice

  by Christopher Hibbert

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  The Arts & Crafts Companion

  by Pamela Todd

  As a movement dedicated to the revival of traditional craftsmanship following the early mass production of the mid-19th century, Arts and Crafts evolved on both sides of the Atlantic, and its style became instantly recognizable. THE ARTS & CRAFTS COMPANION traces the origins of the movement; discusses the personalities involved, such as William Morris, Edwin Lutyens, and Frank Lloyd Wright; and includes... (more)
• Mrs. Alice Meynall introduces the treatise on the seven lamps of architecture: With the author's illustrations (Books that marked epochs)John Ruskin

  

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  Mrs. Alice Meynall introduces the treatise on the seven lamps of architecture: With the author's illustrations (Books that marked epochs)

  by John Ruskin

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  On Reading

  by Marcel Proust

  This is a classic account of the reader (as opposed to the writer), of the place of reading in our lives and of its modest mysteries. The book attempts to portray the artist as a young reader and explores the ethics of reading.
• The Invention of Truth: A NovelMarta Morazzoni, M. J. Fitzgerald

  

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  The Invention of Truth: A Novel

  by Marta Morazzoni

  An intertwining of two narratives follows three hundred of the most talented women in a kingdom in Northern France as they bring to life their queen's vision of what will become of the famous Bayeux tapestry.
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  On the Old Road: A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays, Pamphlets etc. Published 1834 to 1885 V1

  by John Ruskin

  1885. Volume One of Two. Ruskin, the greatest Victorian bar Victoria, was an artist, scientist, poet, environmentalist, philosopher, and the preeminent art critic of his time. A collection of Ruskin's writings and lectures containing: Art: History and Criticism; Pre-Raphaelitism; Architecture; and Part II. Inaugural Address, Cambridge School of Art 1858. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger... (more)