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Thoughts of Idle Hours
Author: Myra Viola Wilds
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781017289152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Thoughts of Idle Hours
Books for Idle Hours
Author: Donna Harrington-Lueker
Publisher: UMass + ORM
Published: 2019-08-30
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1613766319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social status, book publishers sought new market opportunities, authors discovered a growing readership, and more readers indulged in lighter fare. Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Countering fears about the dangers of leisurely reading—especially for young women—publishers framed summer reading not as a disreputable habit but as a respectable pastime and welcome respite. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.
Thoughts for Idle Hours
Thoughts for Idle Hours
Author: Johnson Maggie Pogue
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781019240953
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Thoughts for Idle Hours (Classic Reprint)
Author: Maggie Pogue Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 2015-07-11
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781331162179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Thoughts for Idle Hours Somebody's Mother The world in its wild and maddened flight Goes heedlessly along, Pays no thought to the darkest night, And heeds not a ceaseless throng. A wanderer poor and forsaken May pass by one then another, But he's not noticed at all, Lest it be by somebody's mother. Somebody's mother, tho' old and gray, And bent by life's lengthened years, Has helped the beggar, so poor, by the way, And gives him her prayers and her tears. The girl who falls by the wayside, And wrecks her dear sacred life, Who ceases to heed to her guide, Repents in bitter strife. The world now laughs her to scorn, Kicked and buffed by one then another, She begs for sympathy long - None offers but somebody's mother. Somebody's mother holds out her hand, To take this wanderer in, Battered and cuffed by a reckless band, With tattered garments of sin. The boy who has lived the most reckless life, And in shame wanders wildly home; Thro' the world he stumbles in darkness of night, With a pillow of rock or stone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2019-05-02
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 3732293092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now, this is a subject on which I flatter myself I really am au fait. The gentleman who, when I was young, bathed me at wisdom's font for nine guineas a term-no extras-used to say he never knew a boy who could do less work in more time; and I remember my poor grandmother once incidentally observing, in the course of an instruction upon the use of the Prayer-book, that it was highly improbable that I should ever do much that I ought not to do, but that she felt convinced beyond a doubt that I should leave undone pretty well everything that I ought to do. I am afraid I have somewhat belied half the dear old lady's prophecy. Heaven help me! I have done a good many things that I ought not to have done, in spite of my laziness. But I have fully confirmed the accuracy of her judgment so far as neglecting much that I ought not to have neglected is concerned. Idling always has been my strong point. I take no credit to myself in the matter-it is a gift. Few possess it. There are plenty of lazy people and plenty of slow-coaches, but a genuine idler is a rarity. He is not a man who slouches about with his hands in his pockets. On the contrary, his most startling characteristic is that he is always intensely busy.
Poems of Idle Hours
How to Be Idle
Author: Tom Hodgkinson
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2013-07-30
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 006231341X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Yearning for a life of leisure? In 24 chapters representing each hour of a typical working day, this book will coax out the loafer in even the most diligent and schedule-obsessed worker. From the founding editor of the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, The Idler, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle, Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a new, universal standard of living: being happy doing nothing. He covers a whole spectrum of issues affecting the modern idler—sleep, work, pleasure, relationships—bemoaning the cultural skepticism of idleness while reflecting on the writing of such famous apologists for it as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Johnson, and Nietzsche—all of whom have admitted to doing their very best work in bed. It’s a well-known fact that Europeans spend fewer hours at work a week than Americans. So it’s only befitting that one of them—the very clever, extremely engaging, and quite hilarious Tom Hodgkinson—should have the wittiest and most useful insights into the fun and nature of being idle. Following on the quirky, call-to-arms heels of the bestselling Eat, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss, How to Be Idle rallies us to an equally just and no less worthy cause: reclaiming our right to be idle.
