The Idler’s Companion

Description

An anthology of literary idleness from king of the idlers Tom Hodgkinson and his idler-de-camp Matthew de Abaitua. Obviously one would expect Jerome K Jerome to take centre stage, and he does, but along with him comes Paul Lafargue’s bitter rebuke of his industrious father-in-law Karl Marx, along with idle decadents Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire, the modern epicurianism of Will Self, not forgetting the greatest literary idler of them all, Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener. This is the hardback edition published in 1998 and is in immaculate condition.