Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780141192284
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Classics
Vekt
1227 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
56 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
1376
Forfatter
Redaktør
Biographical note
Robert Burton (1577-1640) spent most of his life in Oxford, first as a student and later as a scholar. His most famous work, the enormous Anatomy of Melancholy, was first published in 1621 and expanded in further editions throughout Burton's life.
Angus Gowland is a Reader in Intellectual History at University College London.
'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianRobert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, goblins, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy of Melancholy has fascinated figures from Samuel Johnson to Jorge Luis Borges since the seventeenth century, and remains an incomparable examination of the human condition in all its flawed, endless variety.Edited with an introduction by Angus Gowland
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The best book ever written
Ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, Burton's masterpiece is really an all-encompassing examination of the human condition.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780141192284
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Classics
Vekt
1227 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
56 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
1376
Forfatter
Redaktør
Biographical note
Robert Burton (1577-1640) spent most of his life in Oxford, first as a student and later as a scholar. His most famous work, the enormous Anatomy of Melancholy, was first published in 1621 and expanded in further editions throughout Burton's life.
Angus Gowland is a Reader in Intellectual History at University College London.