The Anatomy of Melancholy

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A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, 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 uncategorizable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141192284
Published: July 2023

Number of pages: 1376
Width: 153 mm
Height: 234 mm
Depth: 56 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd