The Anatomy of Melancholy
Rare and modern books
Burton Robert, Angus Gowland Ed.
Penguin Classics 2023,
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Rare and modern books
Burton Robert, Angus Gowland Ed.
Penguin Classics 2023,
36.00 €
(Roma,
Italy)
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- Author
- Burton Robert, Angus Gowland Ed.
- Publishers
- Penguin Classics 2023
- Binding description
- S
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- As New
- Binding
- Softcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
8vo, br. ed. 1376pp. 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, goblins, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy of Melancholy has fascinated figures from Samuel Johnson to Jorge Luis Borges since the seventeenth century, and remains an incomparable examination of the human condition in all its flawed, endless variety.
