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A Man in Full
by Tom Wolfe
An Atlanta real estate tycoon's collapse and a laid-off worker's discovery of Stoicism. Wolfe's Epictetus novel.
Read it if…
you want Stoicism in a big American novel.
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Skip it if…
you want brevity.
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Three things you will actually use
- Fortune turns.
- Epictetus in a jail cell.
- Character under pressure.
Do this first
Read the Conrad Hensley chapters.
Our verdict
Wolfe's Stoic.
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