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Friendship

Further Reading

Mark Vernon, The Philosophy of Friendship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics, 2004)

Plato, Meno and Other Dialogues: Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Meno (Oxford World Classics, 2005)

Marcus Tullius Cicero, On the Good Life (Penguin, 2001)

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (Oxford World Classics, 1998)

Alan Bray, The Friend (University of Chicago Press, 2003)

Francis Bacon, 'Of Friendship' in The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral (Oxford, 1999)

Michel De Montaigne, 'Of Friendship' in The Complete Essays , trans. by M. A. Screech (Penguin, 1993)

William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Arden Shakespeare, 2001)


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