The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton with Angus Gowland

1376 pages hardcover 1621

27 editions

nonfiction classics philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Robert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol...

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