TY - BOOK AU - Ruskin,John AU - Proust,Marcel TI - Sésame et les lys: des trésors des rois, des jardins des reines AV - PR PY - 2021/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Conduct of life KW - Social problems KW - Women KW - Books and reading -- Great Britain N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9same_et_les_Lys; Release date is 2021-01-04; Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Sésame et les lys: des trésors des rois, des jardins des reines" by John Ruskin is a collection of two lectures published in 1865. The first lecture explores the importance of reading as a form of conversation with minds greater than those we meet by chance. The second advocates for women's education and examines female characters in Shakespeare and Walter Scott. Marcel Proust's 1906 French translation includes a famous preface challenging Ruskin's views, arguing that reading is fundamentally a solitary intellectual experience. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64213 ER -