id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4753 The King of the Golden River - Wikipedia .html text/html 2154 149 79 The King of the Golden River Title page, designed by Richard Doyle The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria by John Ruskin was originally written in 1841 for the twelve-year-old Effie (Euphemia) Gray, whom Ruskin later married.[1] It was published in book form in 1851, and became an early Victorian classic which sold out three editions. Gluck and the King of the Golden River, illustration to a later edition by John C. ^ John Ruskin, The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria, Katharine Lee Bates, ed., (Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1903), 74. ^ John Ruskin, The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria, Katharine Lee Bates, ed., (Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1903), 57, lines 1075–1080. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4753.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4753.txt