title: Selected Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  John Ruskin 
description: Dinah Birch has published widely on nineteenth-century literature, and has edited George Eliot's Middlemarch for OWC. Her books on Ruskin include Ruskin's Myths (1988), Ruskin on Turner (1990), a selection from Ruskin's Fors Clavigera (2000), and edited collections of essays: uskin and the Dawn of the Modern (1999), and Ruskin and Gender (2002) co-edited with Francis O'Gorman.
zlib_text: Ruskin Bond brings to the comfort and safety of your armchair a collection
  of inspiring and hair-raising stories of courage and wits, from dangerous
  and exotic locales all over the world.
  The stories in this collection are mostly non-fictional, first-person
  accounts, all the more gripping for their direct narrative style and terse
  description. We travel through different yet equally exciting periods in
  history, from Casanova's gaol, to the erstwhile French colonies in North
  Africa; from the horrific battlefields of the First World War, to Malekula
  in the South Pacific. Besides being compelling accounts of 'famous
  escapes', this anthology provides a peek into fascinating histories,
  geographies and cultures, and urges you to be, as Ruskin Bond says,'a
  global traveller'.
  Ruskin Bond, well-known as one of India's best-loved and most prolific
  writers, has been writing novels, poetry, essays and short stories for almost
  half a century now. Apart from this, over the years he has expertly
  comp