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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 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 uncategorisable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues History of science

• Full title: Anatomy of Melancholy
• Author: Robert Burton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1376
• EAN: 9780141192284
• ID: 09220913
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 700 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 153 × 40 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. July 2023

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