{"product_id":"9780191627361","title":"Praeterita","description":"For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I  \u003cbr\u003e had thought.'John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth  \u003cbr\u003e century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the  \u003cbr\u003e Italian Middle Ages; a social critic whose aspiration for, and disappointment in,  \u003cbr\u003e the future of Great Britain was expressed in some of the most vibrant prose in the  \u003cbr\u003e language. Ruskin's incomplete autobiography was written between periods of serious  \u003cbr\u003e mental illness at the end of his career, and is an eloquent analysis of the guiding  \u003cbr\u003e powers of his life,both public and private. An elegy for lost places and people,  \u003cbr\u003e Praeterita recounts Ruskin's intense childhood, his time as an undergraduate at  \u003cbr\u003e Oxford, and, most of all, his journeys across France, the Alps, and northern Italy.  \u003cbr\u003e Attentive to the human or divine meaning of everything around him,Praeterita is an  \u003cbr\u003e astonishing account of revelation.","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081584034032,"sku":"9780191627361","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780191627361_p0.jpg?v=1763661619","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780191627361","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}