About the Book: Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow
'What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and
elevate. This book wouldnt elevate a cow… All I can suggest is that when you get
tired of reading "the best hundred books", you may take this up for half an
hour. It will be a change. A book of essays and observations by one of the
finest humorists of all time, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow has remained a
classic since it was first published in the late nineteenth century. Writing on
a whimsically diverse range of topics-on being idle ('It