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  • The Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    '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 life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, goblins, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    According to Wikipedia: "The Anatomy of Melancholy (Full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. Burton's book ... Read more

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  • The Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    The Anatomy of Melancholy, one of the richest, most inexhaustible books in the English language.Ostensibly an elaborately systematized medical treatise dealing with various morbid mental states — their causes, symptoms, and cures — the Anatomy is much more: a compendium of memorable utterances on the human condition in general, compiled from classical, scholastic, and contemporary sources. For ... Read more

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  • The Language of Smell

    by Robert Burton ...
    Series series Psychology Revivals
    The sense of smell is at least equally important to may animals as sight and hearing. This important fact had previously been largely overlooked and is the subject of this fascinating study of the animal kingdom, The Language of Smell, originally published in 1976.Robert Burton, a zoologist and writer on wildlife, surveys the use of the sense of smell, from ants and butterflies, through birds, to ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy (Volume I of III)

    by Robert Burton ...
    A labor of love taking much of Burton's life to write and revise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" is an expansive, informative, and eccentric work of genius first published in 1621. Burton was an English churchman and a scholar, and his depth and breadth of knowledge is readily apparent in this inexhaustible book. Through the frame of a medical treatise, Burton begins with melancholy and slowly deals ... Read more

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  • The Anatomy of Love

    by Robert Burton ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **A sleek, accessible edition of this classic 17th-century work focusing on love: its joy, madness, and despair – and possibly its cure.“One of the indispensable books; for my money, it is the best of all.” - Philip Pullman**Dryness, paleness, waking, sighing, despair, frenzy, death: love's repercussions can be dire indeed. Perhaps that is why Robert Burton devoted the largest part of his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    According to Wikipedia: "The Anatomy of Melancholy (Full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. Burton's book ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy (Volume II of III)

    by Robert Burton ...
    A labor of love taking much of Burton's life to write and revise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" is an expansive, informative, and eccentric work of genius first published in 1621. Burton was an English churchman and a scholar, and his depth and breadth of knowledge is readily apparent in this inexhaustible book. Through the frame of a medical treatise, Burton begins with melancholy and slowly deals ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy (Volume III of III)

    by Robert Burton ...
    A labor of love taking much of Burton's life to write and revise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" is an expansive, informative, and eccentric work of genius first published in 1621. Burton was an English churchman and a scholar, and his depth and breadth of knowledge is readily apparent in this inexhaustible book. Through the frame of a medical treatise, Burton begins with melancholy and slowly deals ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    Although presented as a medical text, The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, and Robert Burton addresses far more than his stated subject. In fact, the Anatomy uses melancholy as the lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized, and virtually the entire contents of a 17th-century library are ... Read more

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  • The Anatomy of Melancholy (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A 17th‑Century Inquiry into Melancholy: Philosophy, Medicine, and Humor in the Study of the Human Condition

    by Robert Burton, Kara Brackley, Joseph Marshall ...
    First published in 1621 under the persona "Democritus Junior," The Anatomy of Melancholy is an encyclopedic inquiry into sadness that ranges across medicine, philosophy, theology, and poetry. Organized into learned partitions on causes, symptoms, and cures, it surveys humoral physiology, lovesickness, religious despair, and civic malaise, proposing regimens of diet, exercise, music, friendship, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Mind's Tapestry: Navigating 'The Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    Embark on a profound exploration of the human condition with "The Anatomy of Melancholy" by Robert Burton, a literary masterpiece that delves into the intricacies of melancholy, its causes, and its potential cures. Join Burton on a journey through the complexities of the mind and emotions.As the pages unfold, immerse yourself in Burton's meticulous examination of melancholy, blending philosophy, ... Read more

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