Name: THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY
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Author: BURTON,ROBERT
ISBN: 9780141192284

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PENGUIN

Author

BURTON,ROBERT

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

1424

ISBN13

9780141192284

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THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY

Burton,Robert (Author) · PENGUIN · Physical Book

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Synopsis "THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY"

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.