- Published: 10 October 2023
- ISBN: 9780141192284
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 1376
- RRP: $45.00
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
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A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition
The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-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 uncategorizable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.
- Published: 10 October 2023
- ISBN: 9780141192284
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 1376
- RRP: $45.00
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