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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.

An Apology for Idlers

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 27/08/2009
      ISBN13: 9780141043968, 978-0141043968
      ISBN10: 0141043962
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      Biography Essays Books by Robert Louis Stevenson

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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