Name: The Anatomy of Melancholy
Rating: 4.166666666666667 (6 reviews)

Robert Burton

Nicolas K. Kiessling

Thomas C. Faulkner

Rhonda L. Blair

The Text ; edited by Nicholas K. Kiessling, Thomas C. Faulkner, Rhonda L. Blair

The Anatomy of Melancholy

This work is cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed. It is one of the major documents of modern European civilization, a survey not only of melancholy in all its myriad forms, but also of humanity's endless efforts to assuage it. First published in 1621, the book was an immediate popular success. The New York Review Books edition was edited by Holbrook Jackson in 1932. This new edition contains a new introduction by William Gass, director of the International Writer's Center. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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Joshua Line

Sameer Vasta

Amro Gebreel

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 this edition, the editors carefully selected passages of the most psychological and general interest, eliminating the nonessential material but retaining the incomparable humor, eccentric charm, imagination, and thought-provoking appeal of the original.

The Anatomy of Melancholy The Text ; edited by Nicholas K. Kiessling, Thomas C. Faulkner, Rhonda L. Blair

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