The Anatomy of Melancholy
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- Synopsis
- Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Burton's masterpiece, this fully edited, modern edition is published as a landmark hardback volume in Penguin Classics. 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, demons, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy of Melancholy has fascinated figures from Samuel Johnson to Jorge Luis Borges since the seventeenth century, and remains an incomparable examination of the human condition in all its flawed, endless variety.
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 1,364 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780241533758
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780141395234
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 09/09/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Angus Gowland
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Angus Gowland
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