Sésame et les lys: des trésors des rois, des jardins des reines by John Ruskin
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"Sésame et les lys: des trésors des rois, des jardins des reines" by John Ruskin is a collection of two lectures published in 1865. The first lecture explores the importance of reading as a form of conversation with minds greater than those we meet by chance. The second advocates for women's education and examines female characters in Shakespeare and Walter Scott. Marcel Proust's 1906 French translation includes a famous preface challenging Ruskin's
views, arguing that reading is fundamentally a solitary intellectual experience. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 |
| Title | Sésame et les lys: des trésors des rois, des jardins des reines |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9same_et_les_Lys |
| Credits | Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 68.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Conduct of life |
| Subject | Social problems |
| Subject | Women |
| Subject | Books and reading -- Great Britain |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 64213 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-64213-0 |
| Release Date | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 573 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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