Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Anatomy Of Melancholy
Author(s): Burton Robert
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9780940322660
Pages: 1424 Pages
Publication Date: 4/30/2001
Category: Psychology