# The Anatomy of Melancholy

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- Book: [The Anatomy of Melancholy](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-burton/the-anatomy-of-melancholy) ([The Anatomy of Melancholy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-burton/the-anatomy-of-melancholy.md))
- Authors: [Robert Burton](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-burton)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-228-4
- Pages: 1376
- Published: 2023-07-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-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 uncategorizable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.