First edition, first impression. xiv, 208pp. Yellow cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. Richly decorated endpapers. 8vo. Some mild rubbing to board edges else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped, very slightly bumped on extreme edges.
Hodgkinson goes back to the original ancient philosophers and some of the greatest Stoics - Zen, Seneca, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius - to see if they can help today to find fulfilment in modern life. With illuminating reflections on everything from ethics, grammar and education to friendships and letting your hair down, it is an account told with wit and humour,
