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Sesame and Lilies Paperback - 2015

by John Ruskin


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John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies (1865) consists of two lectures, “Of Kings’ Treasuries” and “Of Queens' Gardens,” delivered in December 1864 at the town halls at Rusholme and Manchester. While these lectures emphasize the connections between nature, art and society, they are essentially concerned with education and ideal conduct. The first half of the original work, “Of Kings’ Treasuries,” is a critique of Victorian manhood. The second half, “Of Queens' Gardens,” counsels women to be moral guides and urges parents to educate them as such. Although Sesame and Lilies was widely popular in its time, the work in its entirety has been out of print since the early twentieth century.

From the publisher

"You shall each have a cake of sesame, -and ten pound." Lucian: The Fisherman. My first duty this evening is to ask your pardon for the ambiguity of title under which the subject of lecture has been announced: for indeed I am not going to talk of kings, known as regnant, nor of treasuries, understood to contain wealth; but of quite another order of royalty, and another material of riches, than those usually acknowledged

First Edition Identification

John Wiley and Son of New York first published Sesame and Lilies in 1865.

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  • Title Sesame and Lilies
  • Author John Ruskin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 80
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Date 2015-07-01
  • ISBN 9781514792889 / 1514792885
  • Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.17 in (22.91 x 15.19 x 0.43 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 814
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