Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

By Stevenson, Robert Louis

Book Id: WPLBN0002952981
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File Size: 159.75 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author:	Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Essay/Short nonfiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Historic Publication Date:	1906
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Louis Stevenson, B. R. (1906). Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.” What comforting words for the idle among us! Like many of the best essayists, Stevenson is very much the genial fireside companion: opinionated, but never malicious; a marvellous practitioner of the inclusive monologue. In this collection of nine pieces he discusses the art of appreciating unattractive scenery, traces the complex social life of dogs, and meditates in several essays upon the experience of reading literature and writing it. Perhaps his most personal passages concern death and mortality. Here we meet him at his most undogmatically optimistic, as he affirms a wholesome faith in “the liveableness of Life”. (Summary by Martin Geeson)

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Essay/Short nonfiction