THE ATHENAEUMThe Anatomy of MelancholyRobert Burton
Essays
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textRobert Burton, an Oxford scholar who signed himself Democritus Junior, set out to explain melancholy and ended by writing about nearly everything: love, diet, air, scholars, religion and the cures for sorrow. First published in 1621, it kept growing in every edition he lived to see. Samuel Johnson said it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 35 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #10800. In the public domain in the United States.