9780141192284-0141192283-Anatomy of Melancholy

Anatomy of Melancholy

ISBN-13: 9780141192284
ISBN-10: 0141192283
Author: Robert Burton
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback 1424 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780141192284
ISBN-10: 0141192283
Author: Robert Burton
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback 1424 pages

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Anatomy of Melancholy (ISBN-13: 9780141192284 and ISBN-10: 0141192283), written by authors Robert Burton, was published by Penguin Classics in 2022. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Anatomy of Melancholy (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.52.

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A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality an all-encompassing examination of the human condition. The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens and cuts up' the condition of melancholy, or depression as we know it today, and in doing so explores a dizzying range of additional topics, including goblins, beauty, the geography of America, digestion, the passions, alcohol and kissing. Burton believed that reading was a cure for melancholy, and so the book itself - one of the most unique and uncategorisable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.
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