Repplier's essays are, nevertheless, works of art. Each is modest and yet clear and concise.
These essays represent the capacity for excellent thinking, superb organization and certainly are each a model for what essays in the modern age might be like if only the writer weren't so anxious to do more than destroy the entire forest of antithetical ideas in one blow.
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Agnes Repplier - Essays in Idleness
Essays in Idleness
Agnes Repplier
Description
Repplier's essays are, nevertheless, works of art. Each is modest and yet clear and concise.
These essays represent the capacity for excellent thinking, superb organization and certainly are each a model for what essays in the modern age might be like if only the writer weren't so anxious to do more than destroy the entire forest of antithetical ideas in one blow.