Essays in Idleness
Book Details
Language
EnglishOriginal Language
EnglishPublished In
1893Author
Agnes Repplier
United States
Agnes Repplier was an American essayist. She was born in Philadelphia in 1855, of French and German extraction, and was educated at the Convent of the Sacred...
More on Agnes RepplierDownload eBooks
Listen/Download Audiobook
- Select Speed
Related books
Essays on Art by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Essays on art, letters, thoughts, aphorisms - Goethe's thoughts were dealing with artworks of every branch of arts. He addressed many aspects of the a...
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
This was originally a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum titled "The Wild" . He revised it before his death and it was included as...
The Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Gilbert K. Chesterton
“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the clas...
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life by Lafcadio Hearn
"The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under the title K...
A Holy Life: The Beauty of Christianity by John Bunyan
Written in the late 1600s by John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, this treatise exhorts Christians to holy living. Bunyan takes as his text...
From October to Brest-Litovsk by Leon Trotsky
This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty with G...
Tremendous Trifles by Gilbert K. Chesterton
It's vintage. A collection of essays on all sorts of topics: lying in bed, forgetting white chalk, being expelled from a Hansom Cab against his will,...
The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent and Other Essays by John Erskine
This is a thought-provoking collection of essays that challenges readers to reflect on the significance of intellect and its impact on personal growth...
The Ukraine by George Raffalovich
It provides an insightful look into the history, culture, and people of Ukraine. The book was first published in 1913 and is still relevant today as a...
The Early History of the Airplane by Wright brothers
The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They were not...
Reviews for Essays in Idleness
No reviews posted or approved, yet...