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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled John Ruskin about [F]ar, Ruskin, James with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Literature.
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conversations.value: [F]ar and away the best biography of Ruskin. We understand the man... better than we have ever understood him before. -- James Turner, Books & Culture
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: John Ruskin
  For thirty years he remained my tutor and companion. Had he been my drawing-master also, it would have been better for me: if my work pleased Couttet, I found afterwards it was always good; and he knew perfectly when I was trying vainly to do what I could not, or foolishly what no one else would care for.
  The month at Chamouni, however, passed with his approval, and to my perfect benefit. I made two foreground studies in colour, of considerable beauty; and, under his teaching, began to use my alpenstock easily, and to walk with firmness.
  Many and many an hour of precious time and perfect sight was spent, during these years, in thus watching skies; much was written which would be useful – if I took a year to put it together, – to myself; but, in the present smoky world, to no other creature: and much was learned, which is of no use now to anybody; for to me it is only sorrowful memory, and to others, an old man's fantasy.
  And to this day, the uselessness of San Carlo's memory is to me one of the entirely wonderfullest things in Catholic history; – that Rome should go on sending missionaries to China, and, within a thousand yards across the water from St Carlo's isle, leave the people of her own Italy's Garden of Eden in guilt and misery. I call the Lago Maggiore district the Eden of Italy; for there are no solfataras there, no earthquakes, no pestiferous marsh, no fever-striking sunshine. Purest air, richest earth, loveliest wave; and the same noble race that founded the architecture of Italy at Como.
  That day Gordon was to come up from Chamouni to meet us; he had slept at Visp, and was first at Zermatt. Just as we came in sight of the Matterhorn he met us with his most settledly practical and constitutional face –
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conversations.value: Little I thought, in clasping Richard's hand on the ridge of the Jaman that spring, – he going down into the Simmenthal, I back to Vevay, – that our companying together was ended: but I never have known anything of what was most seriously happening to me till afterwards; this – unastrological readers will please to note – being one of the leaden influences on me of the planet Saturn.
  The road from Geneva to Chamouni, passing the extremity of the Salève about five miles south of the city, reaches at that point the sandy plateau of Annemasse, where forms of passport had (anciently) to be transacted, which gave a quarter of an hour for contemplation of what the day had to do.
  From the street of the straggling village one saw over the undulations of the nearer, and blue level of the distant, plain, a mass of rocky mountains, presenting for the most part their cliffs to the approaching traveller, and tossing their crests back in careless pride, above the district of well inhabited, but seldom traversed, ravines which wind between the lake of Annecy and vale of Sallenches.
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conversations.value: Couttet, Joseph 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 26.1
  Richardson, Mary (cousin) 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 10.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 21.1, 23.1, 23.2
  Scott, Walter itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 12.1, 12.2, 24.1, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4(n), 28.5, 28.6, 28.7, 28.8
  Severn, Joan (née Agnew) itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 20.1(n), 24.1, 2.1, 26.1, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3(n), 28.4, 28.5(n), 28.6, 28.7, 28.8, 28.9, 31.1
  Turner, J. M. W. itr.1, itr.2, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 17.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 24.1, 26.1, 28.1, 29.1, 29.2, 31.1