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Books by Robert Burton

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The anatomy of melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy is Robert Burton’s enormous, eccentric attempt to understand sadness, depression, anxiety, loneliness, love-sickness, obsession, and the many conditions that can make life feel unbearable. Burton writes as if he wants to read everything humanity has ever thought about

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