Light, Descending: A Novel of John Ruskin by Octavia Randolph PDF

By Octavia Randolph

A story of paintings and Obsession

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Light, Descending brings to lifestyles Victorian paintings and social critic John Ruskin (1819-1900), a passionate and tormented genius whose occupation as paintings critic, social reformer, and benefactor and nemesis to a couple of the best names of nineteenth century artwork led to near-universal public acclaim and insanity.

Octavia Randolph, writer of the best-selling The Circle of Ceridwen Saga, portrays Ruskin's creative genius, political struggles, and annoyed inner most passions in a bright and haunting recounting of the nice man's lifestyles. From his life-long defence of the painter JMW Turner, to Ruskin’s unconsummated marriage to Effie grey, to his patronage of artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his fiancée, Lizzie Siddal, and Lizzie’s demise through self-administered drug overdose; to Ruskin’s love affair with the teenaged Rose LaTouche, and her early demise, which broke Ruskin’s brain; and the notorious libel trial introduced opposed to Ruskin by way of James McNeill Whistler, Light, Descending sweeps the reader from bustling London to a decaying Venice to wild Alpine heights because it chronicles Ruskin’s ecstatic triumphs and blighted happiness.

in accordance with letters, diary entries, and Ruskin's personal voluminous released writings, and peopled with essentially the most compelling personalities of the nineteenth century, Light, Descending is a tour-de-force novel concerning the guy Mohandas Gandhi stated “made me remodel my life.”

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