Parámetros
- 1424 páginas
- 50 horas de lectura
Más información sobre el libro
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 and cuts up' the condition of melancholy, or depression as we know it today, and in doing so explores a dizzying range of additional topics, including goblins, beauty, the geography of America, digestion, the passions, alcohol and kissing. Burton believed that reading was a cure for melancholy, and so the book itself - one of the most unique and uncategorisable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.
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The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2023
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- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Robert Burton
- Editorial
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publicado en
- 2023
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 1424
- ISBN10
- 0141192283
- ISBN13
- 9780141192284
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Filosofía, Psicología, Literatura inglesa, Depresión, Tristeza, Mente humana, Melancolía
- Primera publicación
- 1621
- Título original
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Calificación
- 4,15 de 5
- Descripción
- 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 and cuts up' the condition of melancholy, or depression as we know it today, and in doing so explores a dizzying range of additional topics, including goblins, beauty, the geography of America, digestion, the passions, alcohol and kissing. Burton believed that reading was a cure for melancholy, and so the book itself - one of the most unique and uncategorisable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.