Athena: Queen of the Air (Annotated Edition) - format ePub

John Ruskin (1819-1900) fue uno de los escritores británicos más influyentes del siglo XIX. En 1862 reunió cuatro ensayos sobre economía política que había publicado en la revista Cornhill y los publicó...

La presente edición recoge los textos que Ruskin dedicó al tema de lo grotesco. Lo grotesco se percibe en el estilo y lenguaje de las obras artísticas, pero no es solo una cuestión de estilo y lenguaje....

Ideas que han cambiado el mundoA lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la...

John Ruskin (1819-1900) fue uno de los escritores británicos más importantes e influyentes del siglo xix. En 1860 decide publicar un ensayo con algunas ideas sobre economía titulado "The Roots of Honour"...

'Athena: Queen of the Air' is an interesting work of Greek Mythology and art criticism that discusses the Goddess Athena. Previously published in 1869, 'Athena: Queen of the Air' by John Ruskin was...

The following lectures were the most important piece of my literary work done with unabated power, best motive, and happiest concurrence of circumstance. They were written and delivered while my mother...

My first duty this evening is to ask your pardon for the ambiguity of title under which the subject of lecture has been announced: for indeed I am not going to talk of kings, known as regnant, nor of...

The following addresses, though spoken at different times, are intentionally connected in subject; their aim being to set one or two main principles of art in simple light before the general student,...

The following lectures were really given, in substance, at a girls' school (far in the country); which, in the course of various experiments on the possibility of introducing some better practice of drawing...

The following Lectures are printed, as far as possible, just as they were delivered. Here and there a sentence which seemed obscure has been mended, and the passages which had not been previously written,...

The greater part of the following treatise remains in the exact form in which it was read at Manchester; but the more familiar passages of it, which were trusted to extempore delivery, have been since...

The title of this book,—or, more accurately, of its subject;—for no author was ever less likely than I have lately become, to hope for perennial pleasure to his readers from what has cost himself the...

It is mortifying enough to write,—but I think thus much ought to be written,—concerning myself, as 'the author of Modern Painters.' In three months I shall be fifty years old: and I don't at this hour—ten...

The Pleasures of England: Lectures given in Oxford written by John Ruskin. The Pleasures of England: Lectures Given in Oxford, During his Second Tenure of the Slade Professorship (delivered 1884, published...

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JOKER fights with his brother and people from other PLANNETs as he goes back to his PLANNET and wants to save his FATHER and PEOPLE.

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A Slice of Heaven is a darkly comedic thriller that follows Tony, a disgruntled pizza delivery driver whose simmering resentment turns into a full-blown culinary crime spree. Armed with razor-sharp pizza...

Decades after a devastating AI uprising turned Chicago into a hazardous wasteland of crumbling skyscrapers and electromagnetic storms, Tatiana Reyes carries the ghost of her daughter like a lead weight....

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She's mastered the art of invisibility. He's made her the object of his obsession.A slow-burn Regency romance where control is everything—and surrender is inevitable.Lady Carina Arington has spent two...

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We have seen a world where crime is organised, whether it is cartels or crime families, but imagine a world where someone organised serial killers. Serial killers, not killing for the lust to kill, but...