- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.; New edition edition (25 July 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0486421163
- ISBN-13: 978-0486421162
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.9 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 752,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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English churchman and scholar Robert Burton (1576--1639) was a passionate student of medicine, history, literature, and science - the whole of human knowledge. He was also a witty, pedantic, and eloquent genius, who devoted the major part of his life to writing The Anatomy of Melancholy, one of the richest, most inexhaustible books in the English language. Ostensibly an elaborately systematized medical treatise dealing with various morbid mental states - their causes, symptoms, and cures - the Anatomy is much more: a compendium of memorable utterances on the human condition in general, compiled from classical, scholastic, and contemporary sources. For this edition, the editors carefully selected those passages containing the most psychological and general interest, eliminating a good deal of nonessential material, but retaining the incomparable wit, eccentric charm, imagination, and richness of thought of the original. In short, readers will find here the essence of Burton's vast book - the passages which, according to W. H. D. Rouse, reveal the author's "eternal freshness, his own ingenuous interest, [and] his boyish delight in a good story."
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17 Nov 2007
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This is a nice, truncated version of a book many find unreadable today. If you wish a taste of Burton, an idea of his odd brilliance, this will do. The editors choose some nice portions. Unfortunately, reading a brief version is a bit like a Reader's Digest version of 'War and Peace' or some other novel where detail, conversation, the finely drawn characters are the story. You may have the plot and the highlights, but not the story itself. That said, the whole "Anatomy of Melancholy" is a long project and a little is better than none. Give this a go. You may be drawn into the long version, but your time will not be wasted by sipping at this cup.
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