# Praeterita And Dilecta

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- Authors: [John Rusk](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-ruskin)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2005-02-03

## Description

To call Praeterita an autobiography is to tell only part of the truth. A book like no other, by oneof the greatest masters of English prose., it is less a narrative than the prismatic sotry of an extraordinary mind and a passionate heart told in terms of the author's aesthetic education. Ruskin was not merely the most important anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century: for his admirers - who included Proust - he was a Tolstoyan figure with the magic of an artist and the moral authority of a sage. Yet above all he was loved as a personality by friends and readers alilke, and it is the individual human qualitites which shine through the mercurial pages of Praeterita

## Editions

### Praeterita And Dilecta

- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-279-1
- Pages: 704
- Published: 2005-02-03
- Language: en_GB