Author: John Ruskin Year: 1851 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fantasy, Free books, Children, Classic
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ISBNs: 9781599151250 9781484910870 1599151251 1484910877 |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List): An ecological fable which promotes Ruskin's political and aesthetic beliefs. The two wicked brothers in this story are short-sighted capitalists who exploit both labour and natural resources, turning a once-fertile and dramatically beautiful valley into a barren wasteland. Their moods are so dark and their hearts so hard that is seems quite appropriate that they should eventually be transformed into two black stones, while little Gluck ['Glück' means 'happiness' in German], who appreciates the sublime natural landscape and relieves the sufferings of the disadvantaged, restores the landscape to fertility.
John Ruskin wrote The King of the Golden River in 1841 for a little girl names Effie Gray. Seven years later, when he was 29 and she was 19, they were married, and the story was finally published in 1850.
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