On Friendship

Reading listTTF Staff

These are some books we recommend for further reading on the topic of Friendship, the subject of our Reading by Cicero.

Readers may also be interested in Boswell’s Life of Johnson, notably sections on the first meeting of the literary club, and the dinner after the death of Garrick. Available as hypertext and from Amazon.

Basil Mitchell’s essay, “War and Friendship,” in Philosophers Who Believe features the influence of a friend on his journey to faith.

Alan Jacobs has a provocative essay, “Friendship and Its Discontents,” in his collection A Visit to Vanity Fair (Brazos 2001).

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