The Anatomy of Melancholy: Now for the first time With the Latin completely given in translation And embodied in an All-English text by Robert Burton
The Anatomy of Melancholy: Now for the first time With the Latin completely given in translation And embodied in an All-English text
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Robert Burton
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Now for the first time With the Latin completely given in translation And embodied in an All-English text

Robert Burton with Paul Jordan-Smith, Floyd Dell

1036 pages • first pub 1621 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powy...

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