An Apology For Idlers And Other Essays
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An Apology For Idlers
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-08-27
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An Apology For Idlers And Other Essays
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-07-10
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An Apology For Idlers
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
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An Apology For Idlers And Other Essays
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Author : Matthew Kaiser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12-19
An Apology For Idlers And Other Essays written by Matthew Kaiser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although we know him primarily as the charismatic author of Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) began his career as a witty and innovative essayist. This collection includes a selection of fifteen of Stevenson's most poignant, amusing and personal essays on subjects such as deep-sea diving off the coast of Scotland, child's play, death, the medieval poet-thief Fran�ois Villon, surreal San Francisco, insomnia, and Stevenson's quirky enjoyment of "unpleasant places." An Apology for Idlers and Other Essays includes some of Stevenson's most beloved pieces and lesser-known works that have long been out of print. Stevenson called himself "a literary vagrant." His vagabond spirit and self-deprecation transformed the modern essay. Brimming with esoterica and irony, his essays resist the industrious pace of modern life, entrancing the reader with diverting asides, celebrating the lost art of letting our minds wander. "Look at one of your industrious fellows for a moment," Stevenson beseeches us, "he sows hurry and reaps indigestion." In our increasingly fast-paced world, Stevenson's ethic of idleness can feel simultaneously necessary and alien. An Apology for Idlers and Other Essays features an introduction by editor Matthew Kaiser, which provides rich background information on both Stevenson and the titular essay. One of the few scholarly editions of Stevenson's essays, this meticulously annotated collection is well suited for courses on Stevenson, Scottish literature, late-Victorian literature, life writing, and the art of the essay.
An Apology For Idlers
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-17
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Just now, when everyone is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. And yet this should not be. Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.
The Lantern Bearers And Other Essays
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Release Date : 1999-08-17
The Lantern Bearers And Other Essays written by Robert Louis Stevenson and has been published by Cooper Square Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-17 with Literary Collections categories.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is best known as the author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, and Kidnapped, but his essays comprise an oft-overlooked trove of gems, intriguing in their content and generous in their scope. This collection of nearly three dozen of Stevenson's best essays—the only anthology of its kind— spans his brief life and includes many of his most celebrated pieces and some others previously unpublished.
The Idler And His Works And Other Essays
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Author : George Santayana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907
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The World In Play
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Author : Matthew Kaiser
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2011-12-07
The World In Play written by Matthew Kaiser and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the future. A world in play means two things: a world in flux and a world trapped, like Alice in Wonderland, in a ludic microcosm of itself. The book explores the extent to which play (competition, leisure, mischief, luck, festivity, imagination) pervades nineteenth-century literature and culture and forms the foundations of the modern self. Play made the Victorian world cohere and betrayed the illusoriness of that coherence. This is the paradox of modernity. Kaiser gives an account of how certain Victorian misfits—working-class melodramatists of the 1830s, the reclusive Emily Brontë, free spirits Robert Louis Stevenson and John Muir, mischievous Oscar Wilde—struggled to make sense of this new world. In so doing, they discovered the art of modern life.
An Apologie For Poetrie 1595
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Author : Philip Sidney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
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How To Be Idle
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Author : Tom Hodgkinson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2007-06-07
How To Be Idle written by Tom Hodgkinson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-07 with Philosophy categories.
How to be Idle is Tom Hodgkinson's entertaining guide to reclaiming your right to be idle. As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. The Protestant work ethic has most of us in its thrall, and the idlers of this world have the odds stacked against them. But here, at last, is a book that can help. From Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler, comes How to be Idle, an antidote to the work-obsessed culture which puts so many obstacles between ourselves and our dreams. Hodgkinson presents us with a laid-back argument for a new contract between routine and chaos, an argument for experiencing life to the full and living in the moment. Ranging across a host of issues that may affect the modern idler - sleep, the world of work, pleasure and hedonism, relationships, bohemian living, revolution - he draws on the writings of such well-known apologists for idleness as Dr Johnson, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson and Nietzsche. His message is clear: take control of your life and reclaim your right to be idle. 'Well written, funny and with a scholarly knowledge of the literature of laziness, it is both a book to be enjoyed at leisure and to change lives' Sunday Times 'In his life and in this book the author is 100 per cent on the side of the angels' Literary Review 'The book is so stuffed with wisdom and so stuffed with good jokes that I raced through it like a speed freak' Independent on Sunday Tom Hodgkinson is the founder and editor of The Idler and the author of How to be Idle, How to be Free, The Idle Parent and Brave Old World. In spring 2011 he founded The Idler Academy in London, a bookshop, coffeehouse and cultural centre which hosts literary events and offers courses in academic and practical subjects - from Latin to embroidery. Its motto is 'Liberty through Education'. Find out more at www.idler.co.uk.