The Anatomy of Melancholy winter defeats and victories of the

defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life

imaginative pictures from an award-winning illustrator

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The Anatomy of Melancholy winter defeats and victories of the'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Robert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, goblins, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy of Melancholy has fascinated figures from Samuel