Discursive, angry, and uncompromising, Fors is now seen as the most innovative and in many ways the most modern work of Ruskin's later years.

Fors Clavigera (1871--1884), Ruskin's serial "Letters to the Workmen of Great Britain," is his most controversial and personal text. This selected edition of Fors Clavigera is the first since the Library edition completed its 3-volume text in 1907. It provides an extensive selection of the most challenging writing in Fors, including several complete letters and sequences. The densely allusive text is elucidated with full annotation, and features a critical introduction, bibliographical notes, and suggestions for further reading. Ruskin's original illustrations, essential for the understanding of his argument, are reproduced. This edition will at last make Fors Clavigera -- disturbing and endlessly fascinating -- available to modern readers.