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.Edited with an introduction and notes by Angus Gowland'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
Copyright:
2021

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
684 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780141395234
Related ISBNs:
9780241533758, 9780141192284
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Angus Gowland
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Science, Psychology, Philosophy
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Angus Gowland

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