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Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton; Angus Gowland (Editor)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics
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 an ...Show more
Some Anatomies of Melancholy by Robert Burton
$9.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet, drunkenness, love and beauty are each given equal consideration in this all-encompassing examination of t ...Show more
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
$72.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: NYRB Classics S.
One of the major documents of modern European civilisation, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it 'the greatest work of prose of the greatest perio ...Show more
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
$85.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Burton's masterpiece, this is the only fully edited modern edition, now published as a landmark hardback editionRobert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from whi ...Show more
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