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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 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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780141192284
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 1376
  • Udgivet:
  • 6. juli 2023
  • Størrelse:
  • 232x152x58 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 1232 g.
  • 4-7 hverdage.
  • 27. november 2024
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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 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.

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