Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 019281253X, Paperback)

Praeterita is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of the 19th century. Written by Ruskin in the 1880s between attacks of brain fever, it gives a fascinating account of his upbringing in a severely respectable Victorian household, his Continental travels, his friends and relations, and
the development and refinement of his aesthetic tastes.

Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 1400043174, Hardcover)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

“No autobiographer surpasses [Ruskin] in freshness and fullness of memory,
nor in the power of giving interest to the apparently commonplace . . .
The story fascinates.”
–SIR LESLIE STEPHEN

“[Praeterita] is certainly the most charming thing that he ever gave to the world,
and is one of the most . . . exquisite Confessions in the language.”
–FREDERIC HARRISON
“[Ruskin] has written nothing better, it seems to me, than some pages of this book, whether of description or reflection.”
–CHARLES ELIOT NORTON
With a new Introduction by Tim Hilton