Letters from a Stoic: The Ancient Classic (Capstone Classics) Hardcover – 25 Mar. 2021

Not finished reading this yet but I'm really enjoying it. I must say that so far in my opinion it's better than meditations.

I don't tend to read and have never really enjoyed reading, but this is a great book to dip in and out of with some interesting thoughts.

This is a nicely produced edition although the print may be a little large for some (it works for me as my sight is not so good.) I find the black binding quite chic, though I'm not so sure about the half-dustjacket, which is a bit of a pain while reading. Looks great on the shelf though!

If you want to learn a more in depth view of stoicism then this is a good place to start and continue.

A nice looking book. Lived up to expectations.

Only 65 letters are in this book of the 124 letters that were written.

This is the best edition of Letters of a Stoic that I own, I have other copies which did not have the concise contents that this one has. It is worth reading all of what Seneca has to say in all his letters and it is possible to identify some of the letters from the first few paragraphs (the most popular, well known ones perhaps). Sometimes its just far more useful to be able to turn directly to what you are looking for. This edition allows you to do that.Its great because some of the letters are on specific themes which have actually been released as stand alone print copy, like On The Shortness of Life, although again it is worth reading them all. I actually read the letters of a stoic, when I first did, one a day in a different collected volume and it some how read a little like a journal to me.Some of the essays definitely made me think of the lyric in the "Sunscreen" song or "Wear Sunscreen", which was taken from or inspired by some finishing year speech. The line "Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance; so are everybody else’s" definitely sounds like Seneca's letters, and some of Seneca (though not that much) does run the risk of becoming what that tune describes as "advice" ("Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth").For me the introduction and series introduction do not add much to the book, I havent liked many of them in the different books in this series that I have reviewed and this is not exception to that rule. The familiar half front wrap around dust jacket is present here, you can keep it or discard it, it is colour coded to make it distinct from other books in the series. The hardback is good, there's indented lettering but it is the same colour as the hardback itself, I always thought the paper quality is not that great and the typeset a little larger than it has to be but these are not major issues for me either.I definitely recommend reading Seneca's letters, its probably my favourite book on Stoicism and Seneca was not a sectarian or militant like some of that philosophical school, he's less condemning in his view of the Epicureans (whose philosophy was hedonism) for instance. I also recommend this edition because of the good concise contents. Recommended.

Really like this classic book which I read many years and seeing this new edition I had to add it to our collection of these new editions in the 'Capstone Classics' series - they are so well produced and look really nice all together with their black embossed covers and the lovely nice sleek and modern colour-strip. We now have around twenty of these new editions from Capstone and have been really happy with every single one as they are brilliant quality and value for the price so would absolutely recommend.