Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Gelesen von Martin Geeson
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.”
What comforting words for the idle among us! Like many of the best essayists, Stevenson is very much the genial fireside companion: opinionated, but never malicious; a marvellous practitioner of the inclusive monologue.
In this collection of nine pieces he discusses the art of appreciating unattractive scenery, traces the complex social life of dogs, and meditates in several essays upon the experience of reading literature and writing it. Perhaps his most personal passages concern death and mortality. Here we meet him at his most undogmatically optimistic, as he affirms a wholesome faith in “the liveableness of Life”.
(Summary by Martin Geeson) (5 hr 32 min)
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Sublime Essays
Janet
Listening to these essays is like eating dark chocolate (or drinking dark coffee or beer), something to enjoy as a reward. Stevenson is a brilliant writer and Geeson is always a great reader.
these are wonderful
adam
What a gift to get to hang out with this great mind outside of his fictions! I recommend this!
HCampbell
Great essays at perfect length. I didn't much take to the reader, I'm afraid to say, who puts emphases in strange places.