The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton with Angus Gowland (Contributor)

1376 pages • first pub 1621 (editions) user-added

nonfiction classics philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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 'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianRobert 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 lif...

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