Munera Pulveris
Category: Short Stories Author:John Ruskin
The following pages contain, I believe, the first accurate analysis of the laws of Political Economy which has been published in England.
Category: Short Stories Author:John Ruskin
The following pages contain, I believe, the first accurate analysis of the laws of Political Economy which has been published in England.
Category: Short Stories Author:novel
“The King of the Golden River” is a delightful fairy tale told with all Ruskin’s charm of style, his appreciation of mountain scenery, and with his usual insistence upon drawing a moral. None the less, it is quite unlike his other writings. All his life long his pen was busy interpreting nature and pictures and architecture, or persuad...
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Category: Short Stories Author:novel
Referred to by Henry James as 'the first novelist of his time' Ivan Turgenev's works focus on class, love and suffering. "Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories" with its themes of the supernatural was, therefore, something of a departure for a writer who was well known for his more humanitarian and liberal views. However, Turgenev uses...
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Category: Short Stories Author:Leo Tolstoy
Fools, Ivan, as the name implies.His silly, in the face of the property of the grandparents, willing to two elder brother, the whole family had lived in concord.Mountain laoyao really jealous, ordered his three small demon to destruction. Two elder brother, a bravado, a greed, respectively in the two small demon trickery, fool Ivan wa...
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Category: Short Stories Author:Ellen Wood
We lived chiefly at Dyke Manor. A fine old place, so close upon the borders of Warwickshire and Worcestershire, that many people did not know which of the two counties it was really in. The house was in Warwickshire, but some of the land was in Worcestershire. The Squire had, however, another estate, Crabb Cot, all in Worcestershire, a...
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