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The Anatomy of Love

By Robert Burton
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By Robert Burton
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Burton’s masterpiece about the many faces of love comes brilliantly to life in a new accessible edition. From first sparks and infatuation to its darker aspects, this fascinating classic examines what Burton considered humanity’s greatest affliction: love.

A sleek, accessible edition of this classic 17th-century work focusing on love: its joy, madness, and despair – and possibly its cure.

“One of the indispensable books; for my money, it is the best of all.” - Philip Pullman

Dryness, paleness, waking, sighing, despair, frenzy, death: love's repercussions can be dire indeed. Perhaps that is why Robert Burton devoted the largest part of his monumental 17th-century psychological work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, to this supreme passion. Edited to ...

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