The Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton
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One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey not only of melancholy in all its myriad forms but also of humanity's endless efforts to assuage it, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the early seventeenth century.
New York Review of Books Press, 2001 reprint, paperback, 548 pages