Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Illustrated. Newly revised text. Includes Image Gallery + Audio)

This book is spectacular, but advertised as containing audio version as well. The end of the book has a chapter called "Link to free audio recording of Seneca's Letters." The chapter just says "The Letters of Seneca," with no link. The text is not live either, so it's not like you touch it and it goes to the link in question.

One of the greatest philosophy essays of all time. If this abridged version struks you, stop reading immediately ang get the rare and expensive unabridged edition (I believe there is only one in English, a 5 volumes $150 gift for you, your family and some rare and precious friends). If you can read Latin get the Italian dual translation and very cheap edition. If it doesn't struk you, well.....I'm soooo sorry.

Reading Seneca's letters out of context, you could easily assume he was alive today. He seems like a wise old man who writes very engaging emails. That speaks to the timelessness of Seneca's themes, but also the translator's gift at bringing the Latin text into modern English. Highly recommended.

One thing that must be remembered when reading through this book is that it is a series of letters and as such the book can be quite disjointed when moving from letter to letter.
Only complaint is the quality of paper the book is printed on: very light and flimsy.

Kindle formatting is horrible. No paragraphs, endless blocks of text. Would be much more readable if it were formatted into something that was more readable by humans. Font size changes weirdly often too

First and foremost, a great, readable translation.
The book itself is amazing evidence of ancient wisdom. Giving us a glamp of what human nature was liking 2000 years ago, and 'modern problems', are not at all new. We can learn a great deal of lessons, not only by Seneca's wisdom, but also by the the fact that our day to day costumes are repeating the past, and have been already reviewed... Thousands of years ago.

I bought both the Kindle and paperback version of this book from the store. The Kindle edition I got has all the letters (about 2-3x more than the paperback). Tim Ferris (author of The Four Hour Workweek) described this book as his operating system that all other 'programs' are installed upon. This is a very good description of what this book is. It's amazing to see the massive amount of similar issues, thoughts, and problems that were common 2000 years ago to be nearly identical in our current age.

This is not a philosophical book that rambles on in such high level abstract thoughts that you can't gain anything from it, and Seneca also does a great job at berating philosophers that just get into semantic debates or ones where there is no enlightening outcome. Other reviewers describe the book in its detail well, but suffice it to say that this is one of the most practical and entertaining books on Stoic philosophy that will allow you to practically live a better life.

I really enjoyed this book; there are many valuable principles I felt like I could apply in my life. The translation and curating of the text itself is great!!
There are just a couple of his letters about meta-philosophy that I felt were a bit much. Overall, I would totally recommend this book to introspective people who like to challenge themselves to grow.

I don't hate it. I am absolutely disappointed that the forty-ninth letter, On the Shortness of Life, didn't make the cut. I didn't know that this was the abbreviated version of the moral letters. I will likely give this away and buy a different copy. Outer blue ornate design has worn and fallen off substantially after about six months of ownership.

Note: the Kindle version is NOT the Robin Campbell translation the store claims it to be; instead, it is the public domain translation by Richard M Gummere, which you can also find in other editions here on the store.

The letters are a cornerstone of stoic philosophy, but I seriously can't recommend the print version. It is the cheapest physical book I've ever seen, even the cover photo is a pixelated blown up thumbnail, and then it gets worse as you open it! The font is ridiculously small, while the line spacing is absurdly wide for the lines. But the paper is too thin and cheap for this to be for adding your own notes! I bought this as a gift, but threw it away as soon as I realized my error. This is a shame, and should be removed from circulation. Do not buy the physical copy, you will be disappointed.

This review has to do with the store. I purchased the book, but they gave me the wrong kindle version. Please be careful when you choose the version, because apparently there is one from Penguin with Robin as the author, which does not include everything, and there is the sample one which i browsed, but i did not get, and included over 100 letters. So, just keep that in mind.