Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton
4.11/5 (1447 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all 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 period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and elegant new edition, Burton's spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure to delight, instruct, and divert today's readers as much as it has those of the past four centuries.
Format:
Pages:
1392 pages
Publication:
2001
Publisher:
Edition:
1st, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0940322668
ISBN13:
9780940322660
kindle Asin:
B07Y1Z23T3

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton
4.11/5 (1447 ratings)
Read Download
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all 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 period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and elegant new edition, Burton's spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure to delight, instruct, and divert today's readers as much as it has those of the past four centuries.
Format:
Pages:
1392 pages
Publication:
2001
Publisher:
Edition:
1st, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0940322668
ISBN13:
9780940322660
kindle Asin:
B07Y1Z23T3

More Books

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

The Essays

Francis Bacon

The Way Things Are

Lucretius

The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History

Andrew Jotischky

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

Christopher Clark

Venus and Adonis

William Shakespeare

The Birth of Britain (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #1)

Winston S. Churchill

Reading Genesis

Marilynne Robinson

Pensées

Blaise Pascal

Aphorisms on Love and Hate (Penguin Little Black Classics, #5)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

La Prisonnière

Marcel Proust