Sesame and Lilies is a collection of lectures and essays by John Ruskin on reading, education, and the moral and social role of women. It reflects on how books should be read and what culture owes to home life and art. Listeners may value its thoughtful Victorian prose and its questions about learning and responsibility.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
Transcribed from the 1894 George Allen edition by David Price, email [email protected] SESAME AND LILIES By John Ruskin Contents Lecture I. Sesame Lecture II. Lilies Preface to the Later Editions Lecture III. The Mystery of Life and its Arts Preface to the Later Editions Being now fifty-one years old, and little likely to change my mind hereafter on any important subject of thought (unless through weakness of age), I wish to publish a connected series of such parts of my works as now seem to me right, and likely to be of permanent use. In doing so I shall omit much, but not attempt to mend what I think worth reprinting. A young man necessarily writes otherwise than an old one, and it would be worse than wasted time to try to recast the juvenile language: nor is
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