A review by alanffm
An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson

3.0

"An Apology for Idlers" is the main essay in this short collection of meditations by the same name. Stevenson argues that time spent idling is not wasted time (as a long tradition of nobles and ruling class kings would have us believe) but is instead important for self-development and happiness. Happiness is a strange frame of mind because the consequences of being happy, as Stevenson points out, are impossible to calculate.