author
John Ruskin
1819–1900
A brilliant Victorian critic who wrote about art, architecture, nature, and society with unusual energy and feeling. His books helped shape how generations of readers looked at painting, buildings, and the moral life of work.
63 Audiobooks
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Stones of Venice [introductions]
by John Ruskin
Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston
by John Ruskin
Modern Painters, Volume 2 (of 5)
by John Ruskin
The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution, February 4th and 11th, 1884
by John Ruskin
Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5)
by John Ruskin
Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871
by John Ruskin
The Ethics of the Dust
by John Ruskin
Sesame and Lilies
by John Ruskin
The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners
by John Ruskin
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
by John Ruskin
Modern Painters, Volume 5 (of 5)
by John Ruskin
Mornings in Florence
by John Ruskin
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
by John Ruskin
Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
by John Ruskin
Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work
by John Ruskin
The Two Paths
by John Ruskin
The Elements of Perspective arranged for the use of schools and intended to be read in connection with the first three books of Euclid
by John Ruskin
Mons Spes, et novellæ aliæ
by E. Parmalee (Ezra Parmalee) Prentice, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Guy de Maupassant, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson
The King of the Golden River
by John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3)
by John Ruskin
Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy
by John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice, Volume 3 (of 3)
by John Ruskin
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
by John Ruskin
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
by John Ruskin
The Eagle's Nest Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872
by John Ruskin
Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5)
by John Ruskin
Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church
by John Ruskin
A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)
by John Ruskin
The Harbours of England
by John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3),
by John Ruskin
Frondes Agrestes: Readings in 'Modern Painters'
by John Ruskin
Of Vulgarity
by John Ruskin
Ariadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
by John Ruskin
Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5)
by John Ruskin
Arrows of the Chace, vol. 1/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880
by John Ruskin
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
by John Ruskin
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
by John Ruskin
The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford
by John Ruskin
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John Ruskin
by John Ruskin
Arrows of the Chace, vol. 2/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880
by John Ruskin
Kuninkaitten aarteet
by John Ruskin
"Præterita": souvenirs de jeunesse
by John Ruskin
La Bible d'Amiens
by John Ruskin
Luonto ja ihminen: Poimintoja eri teoksista
by John Ruskin
Keskinäinen ihmisyys
by John Ruskin
About the author
Born in London on February 8, 1819, John Ruskin became one of the best-known English writers of the Victorian age. He was far more than an art critic: he also wrote about architecture, education, economics, nature, and social reform, bringing all of it together in a vivid, passionate prose style.
Ruskin first gained wide attention with Modern Painters, a defense of J. M. W. Turner and a bold argument for careful, truthful seeing. He went on to write major works including The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice, which made Gothic art and architecture newly important to many readers. Over time, his interests broadened from art into questions of industry, labor, and justice, and his later writing became deeply concerned with the human cost of modern economic life.
He spent his later years largely at Brantwood in England’s Lake District and died on January 20, 1900. Today he is remembered as a remarkable all-around thinker whose influence reached artists, reformers, and readers far beyond his own century.