Author
John Lubbock
John Lubbock was a British naturalist, banker and public figure. In The Pleasures of Life, published in two parts in 1887 and 1889, he gathered the reflections and passages from literature that had kept him going.
Books in Livria
- The Pleasures of Life
Why does one village ring its church bells over the ending of a novel, while someone else sits bored in front of a full bookshelf? John Lubbock, a 19th-century scientist and banker, has an answer: we are not short of…