# Idle Hours In A Library

An audiobook by William Henry Hudson, read by LibriVox volunteers (5 h 24 min, English).

“\[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism\]—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing among books, and not of special investigations, undertaken with a view to definite scholastic ends. They are, moreover, as will readily be seen, completely unacademic in style and intention.” Published in 1897. Hudson (1841-1922) was a prolific author, naturalist, and ornithologist. His most popular book in the early 20th century was Green Mansions.

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