LITTLE BLACK CLASSICS : TRAFFIC PB – JOHN RUSKIN

You shall have thousands of gold pieces; – thousands of thousands – millions – mountains of gold: where will you keep them? Two of Ruskin s most powerful essays: Traffic and The Roots of Honour Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. John Ruskin (1819-1900). Ruskin s Unto This Last and Other Writings is available in Penguin Classics.