The English editions
Practical Stoicism, ancient codes, and a novel of the Somme. Every book below is available on Amazon.
The Stoic Life Series
Practical wisdom for modern living
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Philosophy is something you do. These guides take Stoicism into work, family, and the hard days.
The Stoic Man’s Guide
Daily Strategies for Modern Men: How to Embrace Timeless Stoicism for Happiness, Resilience, and Well-Being
Men are often the first line of defense when family and work go wrong. This guide turns the teachings of the ancient Stoics into daily strategies for resilience, personal accountability, emotional intelligence, and healthier relationships and routines.
Also in French: Le Guide de l’Homme Stoïque · in Spanish: La Guía del Hombre Estoico
Stoicism 101
A Beginner’s Guide to Peace and Resilience: Embracing Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living
New to Stoicism? Start here. This short, practical introduction demystifies the ancient teachings and gives you exercises for self-reflection, for handling adversity, and for balancing family, work, and personal growth.
The Modern Stoic Father
Ancient Virtues for Raising Resilient Kids in Today’s Families
There are no hard and fast rules for fatherhood, but there are principles that hold. From amor fati to the dichotomy of control, this guide brings Stoic virtues into family life, so you can raise resilient kids and become a better father in the process.
Also in French: Le Père Stoïcien Moderne
On the Shoulders of an Emperor
The Stoic Way of Marcus Aurelius, Applied to Modern Life
No fluff. No mysticism. Just clear action.
Are you tired of logging life but never living it? In eight story-driven chapters, see how Marcus Aurelius forged his mind amid famine, politics, illness, and war, then use the P.O.W.E.R. framework to turn chaos into discipline.
Also in French: Sur les épaules d’un empereur
The series
Three ancient codes, one standard: strength without cruelty, discipline without performance. Each book is a field manual for ordinary life (work, marriage, fatherhood, and pressure), with a thirty-day plan to turn standards into conduct.
Ancient Codes · Book 1
Become harder to break, not harder to love.
Kindle edition
Ancient Codes · Book 2
Become worthy of the weight.
Also inKindle
Ancient Codes · Book 3
Guard your attention. Govern your life.
Also inKindle
The Spartan Code for Men
Stoic Endurance, Courage, and Mental Toughness for Modern Life
Spartan: endure hardship and refuse comfort’s commands.
Comfort is not harmless when it starts giving orders. Drawing on Spartan discipline and Stoic virtue, this severe but humane field manual gives you a fear-to-action ladder, a four-step protocol for governing urges, and a thirty-day field schedule.
The Roman Code for Men
Stoic Duty, Self-Command, and Leadership for the Modern Man
Roman: carry duty and govern responsibility.
Respect is not claimed. Authority is not a mood. This field manual turns Roman ideas like dignitas, pietas, gravitas, and memento mori into clear standards for work, marriage, fatherhood, and leadership.
The Warrior Monk Code
Stoic Silence, Focus, and Self-Mastery for the Modern Man
Warrior Monk: guard your attention and recover inner rule.
The world profits from your distraction. This practical Stoic code turns silence, focus, detachment, and a simple daily rule into a way out of the noise, without walking away from your responsibilities.
A Stoic crisis manual
A Stoic Man’s Guide to Limerence, Obsessive Love, and Reclaiming Yourself
The fire has a name. You are not in love. You are not weak. You are not losing your mind.
The Unwanted Fire is a crisis manual for men caught in limerence, an obsession that lives closer to addiction than to romance. It gives you three Stoic tools and a 30-Day Stoic Limerence Protocol built for the moment your hand reaches for the phone.
By the author of The Stoic Man’s Guide.
Also inKindle
This book discusses obsessive attachment and intrusive thoughts. If you are in crisis, read it alongside professional support, not in place of it.
A novel · The Somme, 1916
A World War I Novel of the Somme
October 1916.
On the Somme, Acting Captain Thomas Hallow must choose between an order likely to destroy his men and a disobedience that may expose another company. In a dead friend’s kit he finds a battered copy of Marcus Aurelius, and its pages offer no comfort. A realist novel about command, conscience, and the responsibility that remains when control is gone.
Also inKindle
Also by William T. Harrison, in French: La Saga de Marcus Virius, four novels of Rome. See the saga
New to Stoicism?
Start with Stoicism 101, then The Stoic Man’s Guide.
Want the source?
On the Shoulders of an Emperor takes you to Marcus Aurelius.
Raising kids?
Want a code to train by?
Begin with Book 1, The Spartan Code for Men.
Can’t stop thinking about one person?
Would rather read a story?
Also in French
These are French editions. The links go to Amazon.fr.
The Marcus Virius saga · Historical novels · Rome, A.D. 161
French editions
Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, and Plato
French editions
Historical fiction · French edition
The Marcus Virius Saga, four novels
Rome, A.D. 161. The tribune Marcus Virius comes home from three years of campaigning to find his house looted and his wife and son gone. Condemned to a gladiator school, he holds on to the teaching of Epictetus: some things are up to us, and others are not.
Book I
Rome, A.D. 161
A disgraced tribune, the gladiator’s arena, and Stoicism put to the test. Start here.
Also inKindle
Book II
Via Appia, A.D. 161
Marcus is free. But freedom is only a beginning, and his past catches up with him on the road to Campania.
Also inKindle
Book III
Campania, A.D. 161
She had stopped waiting. She was weaving. Marcus finds Livia near Capua, but she has rebuilt a life his return cannot simply undo.
Also inKindle
Book IV
Athens, A.D. 162
He came to take back a son. He learned to leave him a life.
Also inKindle
French editions · Kindle and paperback
The great Stoic texts · French editions
The classics, in French
Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus, with two works by Plato alongside, in French editions presented by William T. Harrison. Every text stays credited to its original author, and the newest editions, such as De la Providence, are annotated and illustrated.
Pensées pour moi-même
Meditations
Lettres à Lucilius
Letters to Lucilius
De la brièveté de la vie
On the Shortness of Life
De la vie heureuse
On the Happy Life
De la Colère
On Anger
De la Providence
On Providence · annotated and illustrated edition
Also inKindle
Le Manuel d’Épictète
The Enchiridion
L’Apologie de Socrate
The Apology of Socrates
Le Banquet
The Symposium
Also inKindle
Quo Vadis (Henryk Sienkiewicz)
A great novel of Nero’s Rome · annotated and illustrated edition
Also inKindle
Where to start
If you read French, begin with Pensées pour moi-même, Le Manuel d’Épictète, or Lettres à Lucilius.
More in French: the guides, Le Papillon de Fer, and the essay La Quatrième Humiliation. All books (French site)
Occasional letters on Stoic practice and new books.
Free · French PDF
Reading in French? Get the free guide Stoïcisme 101 (20 pages, French only)
