How to be Idle<\/i><\/b> is Tom Hodgkinson’s brilliant guide to reclaiming your right to be idle<\/b><\/p>\n
‘Well written, funny and with a scholarly knowledge of the literature of laziness, it is both a book to be enjoyed at leisure and to change lives’ Sunday Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. A burn-out work ethic has most of us in its thrall, and the idlers of this world have the odds stacked against them. But here, at last, is a book that can help. Hodgkinson presents us with a laid-back argument for a new contract between routine and chaos, an argument for experiencing life to the full and living in the moment. <\/p>\n
Ranging across a host of issues that affect the modern idler:
-Sleep
-Work
-Pleasure and hedonism
-Relationships
-Bohemian living
-Revolution <\/p>\n
Drawing on the writings of such well-known apologists for idleness as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson and Nietzsche, his message is clear: take control of your life and reclaim your right to be idle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Drawing on history, poetry, philosophy and personal experience, this title is a spirited and joyful defence of laziness and good living. It includes advice, information and reflections on such important matters as lying in, long lunches, the art of the nap and how to skive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[7734],"product_tag":[891],"class_list":["post-102367","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-customer-order","product_tag-humour-collections-anthologies","pa_book_author-hodgkinson-tom","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-179-8-edition22","pa_edition-new-edition","pa_imprint-penguin-books","pa_language-english","pa_pages-9083","pa_publisher-penguin-group","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n