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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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The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert A. Burton
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- Released
- 2023
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robert A. Burton
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 1424
- ISBN10
- 0141192283
- ISBN13
- 9780141192284
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, English Literature, Depression, Sadness, Human Mind, Melancholy
- First published
- 1621
- Original title
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- 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.