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The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics)
The Anatomy of Melancholy - New York Review Books Classics
Author: Robert Burton
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,&#...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780940322660
ISBN-10: 0940322668
Publication Date: 4/9/2001
Pages: 1,382
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Publisher: New York Review of Books
Book Type: Paperback
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