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The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers

By (author) John Ruskin

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John Ruskin wrote this fable for a teenage family friend, Effie, and later he married her. The marriage was famously disastrous, but before it fell apart the Ruskins allowed The King of the Golden River to be published. It became one of the most popular works for children of its time. Richard Doyle contributed over 25 full-page illustrations and vignettes. The King of the Golden River is the first literary fairy tale in English (as opposed to collected folk tales). Ruskin himself said it was â€˜a fairly good imitation of Grimm and Dickens, mixed with some true Alpine feeling of my ownâ€™. Later he spoke of the capacity of the traditional tales â€˜to fortify children against the glacial cold of selfish scienceâ€™. It remains a powerful fable about humanityâ€™s dual capacity for destructiveness and redeeming love, with as strange fairy-tale creatures as one could hope to meet. An essay by Simon Cooke explains the bookâ€™s importance.

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