The King of the Golden River (1851) by John Ruskin
Illustrated by Richard Doyle.
Though essentially an interpreter with a singularly fine appreciation of beauty, no man of the nineteenth century felt more keenly that he had a mission, and none was more loyal to what he believed that mission to be..
There is indeed a good deal of the prophet about John Ruskin.
All his life long his pen was busy interpreting nature and pictures and architecture, or persuading to better views those whom he believed to be in error, or arousing, with the white heat of a prophet\'s zeal, those whom he knew to be unawakened.
None the less, it is quite unlike his other writings. "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.
The King of the Golden River (1851) by John Ruskin
Illustrated by Richard Doyle
