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1376 pages • first pub 1621 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780241533758
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication date: 01 July 2021
Description
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...
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1376 pages • first pub 1621 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780241533758
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication date: 01 July 2021
Description
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...