A Monster’s Wish: The Friendship Missing from ‘Frankenstein’
Reviewing Mary Shelley’s Classic Novel
Stoicism has benefited from a recent wave of renewed popularity. Want to learn how to order your life? Read the Stoics—or at least their updaters. But economist Adam Smith would like to object. His recommendation? Read novelists instead.
Smith pits writers such as Samuel Richardson, author of the epistolary novels Pamela and Clarissa, against the founder…
