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The Book of Idle Pleasures

Tom Hodgkinson,Dan Kieran
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Author : Tom Hodgkinson,Dan Kieran
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780740785085

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The Art of Doing Nothing meets The Dangerous Book for Boys in this charming celebration of simple delights. In The Book of Idle Pleasures, the United Kingdom's expert Idlers Tom Hodgkinson and Dan Kieran stand up for the simple pleasures in life . . . by lying down for a nap. With its tongue firmly in its cheek, The Book of Idle Pleasures renounces our world of ever-growing consumer overload in favor of the timelessly true adage that the best things in life really are free. Clever and sometimes all too true in its reflections on 100 simple pastimes--among them slouching, skipping stones, staring out the window, doodling, and, natch, taking a nap--The Book of Idle Pleasures is a charming celebration of simple pleasures for the sake of pleasure itself, making it a soothing antidote for our nonstop culture and an ideal restorative against the costly confusion of our daily existence.

Idle Pleasures

George Alec Effinger
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Author : George Alec Effinger
Publisher : Berkley Publishing Group
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1982-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425057445

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Science fiction stories deal with baseball, ice hockey, chess, basketball, running, football, and horse racing

The Pleasures of England

John Ruskin
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Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : England
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086813755

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How to be Idle

Tom Hodgkinson
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Author : Tom Hodgkinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141928548

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How to be Idle is Tom Hodgkinson's entertaining guide to reclaiming your right to be idle. As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. The Protestant work ethic has most of us in its thrall, and the idlers of this world have the odds stacked against them. But here, at last, is a book that can help. From Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler, comes How to be Idle, an antidote to the work-obsessed culture which puts so many obstacles between ourselves and our dreams. Hodgkinson presents us with a laid-back argument for a new contract between routine and chaos, an argument for experiencing life to the full and living in the moment. Ranging across a host of issues that may affect the modern idler - sleep, the world of work, pleasure and hedonism, relationships, bohemian living, revolution - he draws on the writings of such well-known apologists for idleness as Dr Johnson, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson and Nietzsche. His message is clear: take control of your life and reclaim your right to be idle. 'Well written, funny and with a scholarly knowledge of the literature of laziness, it is both a book to be enjoyed at leisure and to change lives' Sunday Times 'In his life and in this book the author is 100 per cent on the side of the angels' Literary Review 'The book is so stuffed with wisdom and so stuffed with good jokes that I raced through it like a speed freak' Independent on Sunday Tom Hodgkinson is the founder and editor of The Idler and the author of How to be Idle, How to be Free, The Idle Parent and Brave Old World. In spring 2011 he founded The Idler Academy in London, a bookshop, coffeehouse and cultural centre which hosts literary events and offers courses in academic and practical subjects - from Latin to embroidery. Its motto is 'Liberty through Education'. Find out more at www.idler.co.uk.

Futile Pleasures

Corey McEleney
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Author : Corey McEleney
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823272679

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Honorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First Book Against the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications for the value of literature and the humanities, Futile Pleasures reframes the current conversation by returning to the literary culture of early modern England, a culture whose defensive posture toward literature rivals and shapes our own. During the Renaissance, poets justified the value of their work on the basis of the notion that the purpose of poetry is to please and instruct, that it must be both delightful and useful. At the same time, many of these writers faced the possibility that the pleasures of literature may be in conflict with the demand to be useful and valuable. Analyzing the rhetoric of pleasure and the pleasure of rhetoric in texts by William Shakespeare, Roger Ascham, Thomas Nashe, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton, McEleney explores the ambivalence these writers display toward literature’s potential for useless, frivolous vanity. Tracing that ambivalence forward to the modern era, this book also shows how contemporary critics have recapitulated Renaissance humanist ideals about aesthetic value. Against a longstanding tradition that defensively advocates for the redemptive utility of literature, Futile Pleasures both theorizes and performs the queer pleasures of futility. Without ever losing sight of the costs of those pleasures, McEleney argues that playing with futility may be one way of moving beyond the impasses that modern humanists, like their early modern counterparts, have always faced.

Retired Pleasures; or the Charms of a Rural Life, in prose and verse, with occasional notes and illustrations ... A new edition, with additions

George WRIGHT (Author of “The Rural Christian.”.)
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Author : George WRIGHT (Author of “The Rural Christian.”.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1791
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024149949

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Scribner's Magazine ...

Anonim
Scribner s Magazine Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007467991

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Scribner's Magazine

Edward Livermore Burlingame,Robert Bridges,Alfred Sheppard Dashiell,Harlan Logan
Scribner s Magazine Book PDF

Author : Edward Livermore Burlingame,Robert Bridges,Alfred Sheppard Dashiell,Harlan Logan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : UCD:31175010852658

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Twelve Lectures to Young Men

Henry Ward Beecher
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Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Young men
ISBN : UCD:31175002020314

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