King of the Golden River, the (1850) [Short Story]
by John Ruskin
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An ecological fable which promotes Ruskin’s political and aesthetic beliefs. The two wicked brothers in this story are short-sighted capitalists who exploit both labour and natural resources, turning a once-fertile and dramatically beautiful valley into a barren wasteland. Their moods are so dark and their hearts so hard that is seems quite appropriate that they should eventually be transformed into two black stones, while little Gluck [‘Glück’ means ‘happiness’ in German], who appreciates the sublime natural landscape and relieves the sufferings of the disadvantaged, restores the landscape to fertility.
John Ruskin wrote The King of the Golden River in 1841 for a little girl names Effie Gray. Seven years later, when he was 29 and she was 19, they were married, and the story was finally published in 1850.
Appears in:
Victorian Fairy Tales
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
The Victorian Fairy Tale Book
Beyond the Looking Glass
Original title: The King of the Golden River
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fairy Tales & Folklore→ Original Creations
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Victorian Fairy Tales (1987) [Anthology]
Authors: Lewis Carroll
, Rudyard Kipling
, Charles Dickens
, Edith Nesbit
, Oscar Wilde
, Kenneth Grahame
, Catherine Sinclair
, George MacDonald
, Laurence Housman
, Mary de Morgan
, Lucy Lane Clifford
, John Ruskin
, Juliana Horatia Ewing
, E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen
, Andrew Lang
, George Cruikshank
, Alfred Crowquill
, Anne Isabella Ritchie
, Jean Ingelow
, Harriet Louisa Childe-Pemberton
, Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Evelyn Sharp
Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, the (1993) [Anthology]
Authors: L. Frank Baum
, Ursula K. Le Guin
, Charles Dickens
, Philip K. Dick
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Alison Lurie
, Edith Nesbit
, H. G. Wells
, Oscar Wilde
, Isaac Bashevis Singer
, Bernard Malamud
, Tanith Lee
, Donald Barthelme
, Lord Dunsany
, Louise Erdrich
, Kenneth Grahame
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, Howard Pyle
, Jane Yolen
, T.H. White
, John Collier
, Angela Carter
, James Thurber
, Joan Aiken
, Catherine Sinclair
, George MacDonald
, Laurence Housman
, Frank R. Stockton
, Jay Williams
, Walter de la Mare
, Sylvia Townsend Warner
, Mary de Morgan
, Lucy Lane Clifford
, John Ruskin
, Carl Sandburg
, Frances Browne
, Juliana Horatia Ewing
, Richard Hughes
, Naomi Mitchison
, Jeanne Desy
, Richard Kennedy
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