La Vallée merveilleuse appartenait tout entière à trois frères : Schwartz, Hans et Gluck. Le petit Gluck était bon, on ne peut plus différent de ses deux cruels aînés. Un soir d'orage, il ouvrit la porte à un étrange visiteur tout trempé cherchant refuge. C'est par cette rencontre insolite que le destin de la vallée bascula.

Le roi de la rivière d'or

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Les pierres de Venise

Excerpt from Les Pierres de Venise: Etudes Locales Pouvant Servir de Direction aux Voyageurs Sejournant a Venise Et a Verone Qu'est-ce donc que cet homme si populaire a la fois chez nos voisins du Sud et chez nos voisins du Nord, et de quel nom devons-nous l'appeler? Un archeologue? 4 Nen. Bien qu'il ait penetre, sur quelques points, plus avant que ses predecesseurs, dans l'histoire du Palais Ducal et qu'on lui doive l'idee du magistral ouvrage de Giambattista Lorenzi sur les Monuments pour servir a l'histoire du Palais Ducal depuis 1253 jusqu'a 1797, Ruskin n'etait, ni par son education, ni par sa methode, un archeologue. Un peintre? Pas davantage. S'il dessinait correctement, toujours avec finesse, parfois avec une entente de l'effet qui le rapproche inopinement de son ennemi Whistler, Ruskin ne produisit pas d'oeuvres picturales assez notoires pour qu'on puisse le classer parmi les professionnels. Un critique? Un historien? Non; il a laisse de cote presque tous les actes fameux de l'histoire de Venise. Sur tous ces points on a fait, depuis l'ni, des progres et son entreprise est a la fois trop vaste et trop incomplete au regard de l'erudition et de la critique modernes. Un seul nom convient a Ruskin et le definit. Ce fut un sourcier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Les Pierres de Venise: Études Locales Pouvant Servir de Direction Aux Voyageurs Séjournant a Venise Et a Verone (Classic Reprint)

The title of this book, -or, more accurately, of its subject;-for no author was ever less likely than I have lately become, to hope for perennial pleasure to his readers from what has cost himself the most pains, -will be, perhaps, recognised by some as the last clause of the line chosen from Keats by the good folks of Manchester, to be written in letters of gold on the cornice, or Holy rood, of the great Exhibition which inaugurated the career of so many, -since organized, by both foreign governments and our own, to encourage the production of works of art, which the producing nations, so far from intending to be their "joy for ever, " only hope to sell as soon as possible. Yet the motto was chosen with uncomprehended felicity: for there never was, nor can be, any essential beauty possessed by a work of art, which is not based on the conception of its honoured permanence, and local influence, as a part of appointed and precious furniture, either in the cathedral, the house, or the joyful thoroughfare, of nations which enter their gates with thanksgiving, and their courts with praise.

A Joy Forever

The greater part of the following treatise remains in the exact form in which it was read at Manchester; but the more familiar passages of it, which were trusted to extempore delivery, have been since written with greater explicitness and fullness than I could give them in speaking; and a considerable number of notes are added, to explain the points which could not be sufficiently considered in the time I had at my disposal in the lecture-room.

Some apology may be thought due to the reader, for an endeavour to engage his attention on a subject of which no profound study seems compatible with the work in which I am usually employed. But profound study is not, in this case, necessary either to writer or reader, while accurate study, up to a certain point, is necessary for us all. Political economy means, in plain English, nothing more than "citizens' economy"; and its first principles ought, therefore, to be understood by all who mean to take the responsibility of citizens, as those of household economy by all who take the responsibility of householders.

Unto This Last

First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had a considerable influence on the British socialist movement. And in making his powerful moral and aesthetic case against the dangers of unhindered industrialization he was strangely prophetic. This volume shows the astounding range and depth of Ruskin''s work, and in an illuminating introduction the editor reveals the consistency of Ruskin''s philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. In Ruskin''s words, ''There is no Wealth but Life.''>

Unto this last and other writings

Since the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set upon its sands: the thrones of Tyre, Venice, and England. Of the First of these great powers only the memory remains; of the Second, the ruin; the Third, which inherits their greatness, if it forget their example, may be led through prouder eminence to less pitied destruction.

The exaltation, the sin, and the punishment of Tyre have been recorded for us, in perhaps the most touching words ever uttered by the Prophets of Israel against the cities of the stranger. But we read them as a lovely song; and close our ears to the sternness of their warning: for the very depth of the Fall of Tyre has blinded us to its reality, and we forget, as we watch the bleaching of the rocks between the sunshine and the sea, that they were once "as in Eden, the garden of God."

Her successor, like her in perfection of beauty, though less in endurance of dominion, is still left for our beholding in the final period of her decline: a ghost upon the sands of the sea, so weak-so quiet, -so bereft of all but her loveliness, that we might well doubt, as we watched her faint reflection in the mirage of the lagoon, which was the City, and which the Shadow.

I would endeavor to trace the lines of this image before it be for ever lost, and to record, as far as I may, the warning which seems to me to be uttered by every one of the fast-gaining waves, that beat, like passing bells, against the Stones of Venice.

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