An Apology for Idlers

Informationen zum Autor Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city's professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde . Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne. Klappentext An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the joys of idleness is accompanied here by his writings on, among other things, growing old, visiting unpleasant places and the overwhelming experience of falling in love. Zusammenfassung Offering an invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), this essay on the joys of idleness contains writings on, among other things, growing old, visiting unpleasant places and the overwhelming experience of falling in love.

Product details

• Authors: Robert L. Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.08.2009
• EAN: 9780141043968
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104396-8
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 180 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Great Ideas; Penguin Books, Great Ideas; Great Ideas; Penguin Classics; Penguin Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English; Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays