Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain
Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain

Author: John Ruskin

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 440

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Fors Clavigera (1871--1884), Ruskin's serial "Letters to the Workmen of Great Britain," is his most controversial and personal text. This selected edition of Fors Clavigera is the first since the Library edition completed its 3-volume text in 1907. It provides an extensive selection of the most challenging writing in Fors, including several complete letters and sequences. The densely allusive text is elucidated with full annotation, and features a critical introduction, bibliographical notes, and suggestions for further reading. Ruskin's original illustrations, essential for the understanding of his argument, are reproduced. This edition will at last make Fors Clavigera -- disturbing and endlessly fascinating -- available to modern readers.

FORS CLAVIGERA LETTERS TO THE WORKMEN AND LABOURERS OF GREAT BRITAIN VOLUME 4
FORS CLAVIGERA LETTERS TO THE WORKMEN AND LABOURERS OF GREAT BRITAIN VOLUME 4

Author: JOHN RUSKIN

Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB

Published: 1880-01-01

Total Pages: 205

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One day last November, at Oxford, as I was going in at the private door of the University galleries, to give a lecture on the Fine Arts in Florence, I was hindered for a moment by a nice little girl, whipping a top on the pavement. She was a very nice little girl; and rejoiced wholly in her whip, and top; but could not inflict the reviving chastisement with all the activity that was in her, because she had on a large and dilapidated pair of woman’s shoes, which projected the full length of her own little foot behind it and before; and being securely fastened to her ancles in the manner of mocassins, admitted, indeed, of dextrous glissades, and other modes of progress quite sufficient for ordinary purposes; but not conveniently of all the evolutions proper to the pursuit of a whipping-top......