The Consolation of Philosophy
Cover mockup.
The Consolation of Philosophy
Imprisoned and condemned, the Roman statesman Boethius is visited by Philosophy in the form of a woman, who asks him what he thinks Fortune has taken from him.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 9–11
- First published
- c. 524
- This edition
- All five books, in H. R. James’s translation; his preface, summaries and notes are left out.
- Pages
- 176
- Prompts
- 39, one at the close of each section
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every section of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
Boethius’s opening song says the Muses alone “dared attend” him in exile. The woman who appears above him drives them out as “play-acting wantons” who feed his illness with “sweet poison.” Is her charge fair to the song itself? Bracket the lines that bear it out, and star any that answer it.
At the close of the first section of Book I, The Consolation of Philosophy.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
Every title uses our standard page layout and is made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages176
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, 120 gsm
- EndpapersPrinted, with different art at front and back
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond, with a ruled column in the outer margin and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts39, one at the close of each section
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio