An Apology for Idlers and Other Essays

Written by Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by Peter Lerman

An Apology for Idlers and Other Essays

Justifying his rejection of an established profession, in 1877 Stevenson offered An Apology for Idlers.

"A happy man or woman", he reasoned, "is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill" and a practical demonstration of "the great Theorem of the Liveableness of Life". So that if they cannot be happy in the "handicap race for sixpenny pieces", let them take their own "by-road".

A beautiful, charming and lyrical collection of good humored essays by the beloved writer of the classics Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verse.

Relax and Enjoy!

(c)2023 Bull Mouse Publishing House

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bull Mouse Publishing House
• Release date: Sep 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798368973593

Robert Louis Stevenson

Poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was the author of a number of classic books for young readers, including Treasure Island , Kidnapped, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mr. Stevenson was often ill as a child and spent much of his youth confined to his nursery, where he first began to compose stories even before he could read, and where he was cared for by his nanny, Alison Cunningham, to whom A Child's Garden of Verses is dedicated.