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The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton · Public domain text

544,282 words · about 38 h 7 min to read

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Text only · 2 illustrations omitted. Illustrated source.

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The Anatomy of Melancholy (full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621 but republished five more times over the next seventeen years with massive alterations and expansions.

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Author
Robert Burton (1577–1640)
Language
English
Subjects
Melancholy › Early works to 1800
Length
544,282 words · about 38 h 7 min
Sections
6 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (6)