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Recommended readings for
"The Cheerful Life"


  • The Cheerful Life
    A Series of Papers in Praise
    of Cheerfulness.     Edited by
    E.W. Walters, circa 1894.

Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Walt Whitman
    Stevenson began this essay in 1873, and resumed work on it in the following year. It was the third essay in Familiar Studies of Men and Books, 1882.

  • An Apology for Idlers
    First published in the Cornhill Magazine, July 1877. Included in Virginibus Puerisque, 1881.


Robert Louis Stevenson


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