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El Rei del riu d'or (1850)

de John Ruskin

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Through kindness, a boy regains for himself the treasure his cruel older brothers lost.
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I really really liked this very short story :D

Southwest Wind, Esquire reminds me of Gandalf, and of that witch that ask for help to the prince in The Beauty and The Beast ( )
  GridCube | Jan 17, 2022 |
Not a bad moral tale, but the words were too uncommon for easy understanding by younger children.
Gluck meekly obeys his brothers commands, is beaten by them when he doesn't, but still has a good heart. His brothers are turned to stone when they try to take shortcuts to gold and ignore pleas for help. ( )
  juniperSun | Nov 6, 2017 |
*JOHN RUSKIN, 'The King of the Golden River'

This is the only work of fiction that the prolific and multi-talented Ruskin wrote. However, it manages to encapsulate a great many of the ideals that we think of today, when we think of Ruskin. It has the emphasis on 'Christian' mercy and charity, generosity over greed, and, to an almost distracting degree, the love of the beauties of nature. Indeed, the main 'message' of the tale is that natural bounty is what should be valued more than gold.

The piece wraps its morals in the tale of a young boy and his two cruel and greedy brothers. When a generous act leads to the youngest brother being granted the secret of 'how to turn a river to gold,' he confides in his siblings - but their lack of charity leads to their demise; leaving the reward for the sorely put-upon but unfailingly upstanding hero. ( )
  AltheaAnn | Feb 9, 2016 |
While written pretty much in the style of a fairy tale---with lots more descriptions of scenery---it feels more like a lesson on the value of kindness (and physical appearance) than a fairy tale. In other words, a story meant to instruct rather than one told for the fun of it. I was disappointed. There are three brothers; the first two are mean and ugly and dark and the third is young and kind and blond and handsome.

SPOILER: The brothers live in an idyllic valley, where Hans and Schwartz become filthy rich by treating their employees badly and charging excessive amounts for their crops when people are desperate and starving. Gluck's kindness is to wind and river spirits is rewarded, Hans and Schwartz turn into black stones because they fail in their quests by letting others die of thirst. We learn that holy water can become unholy if it is not used mercifully. It seems the brothers are Catholic(?) because there are holy water and good and bad priests and going to mass. The introduction, however, states that Ruskin was raised to become a minister by his Scottish parents.

The introduction gives a brief biography of Ruskin. An interesting comment is made about thirty million British books destroyed in the blitz in 1941: Ruskin's other book for children was one of the first to appear in color for sixpence. ( )
1 vota raizel | Jul 10, 2014 |
A fairytale in traditional form with two bad brothers and a good brother and a warning against greed. As a child, I thought it was all right but rather heavily didactic. I am ashamed to say I think it is the only work of Ruskin I have ever read. My father was (among other things) a real Ruskin scholar who taught him in Victorian lit classes --a student recalled his asking an exam question "What would Ruskin have thought of the new (drably utilitarian) university administration building. My mother persuaded my father to write the article on King of the Golden River for the NCTE anthology on children's literature --one of his very few published articles. (He always said anything he could write, someone else could write just as well.) ( )
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Nom de l'autorCàrrecTipus d'autorObra?Estat
Ruskin, Johnautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Becker, May LambertonIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Doyle, RichardIl·lustradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Ghiuselev, IassenIl·lustradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Kredel, FritzIl·lustradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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