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This is a collection of essays by Bertrand Russell first published in 1935. In the 1932 essay which gives the title to the volume, Russell propose people work for a maximum of 4 hours-per-day to think, socialise, etc.
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- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Bertrand Russell
- First published
- 1935
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Unwin Paperbacks, Simon & Schuster, G. Allen & Unwin
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780415109246
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“Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: 'Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.'”
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic.
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