John Ruskin 
John Ruskin: Praeterita [PDF ebook] 

Praeterita is perhaps the best-loved of all the fruits of Ruskin’s many-sided and tormented genius. This exceptional biography — the first of Ruskin’s works in the Whitehouse edition — simultaneously presents a deeply reflective portrait of an early 19th-century Protestant family — its genuine piety, its severities, its suffocating possessive affections — and the product (at once intellectually brilliant and emotionally damaged) of its educational system.