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Sesame and Lilies
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Sesame and Lilies collects John Ruskin's Victorian lectures on the value of reading, the purpose of books, and the education and social role of women. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century essays, cultural criticism, and Ruskin's views on learning and character.
John Ruskin
John Ruskin was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth.
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