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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Anatomy of Melancholy: Volume I: Text (Oxford English Texts)by: Robert Burton  Amazon.com's Price: $365.00 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 weeks
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 616.89 EAN: 9780198124481 ISBN: 0198124481 Label: Oxford University Press, USA Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 750 Publication Date: December 07, 1989 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Studio: Oxford University Press, USA Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Burton's learned and satirical The Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621) is one of the last great works of English prose to have remained unedited. This volume inaugurates an authoritative edition of the work, which is being prepared by a team of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. It will be followed by two further volumes of text with textual apparatus, and two volumes of commentary. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Take Small Bites!There are many reviews of Burton's "Anatomy" ranging from the 'best book ever written' downwards. I have been involved with many editions of this work over the years, and have a couple of things to add to what's been so eloquently said. First, it's a reference book and not a novel, and therefore shouldn't be read in a continuous way. It becomes tedious and incomprehensible. Like grandma used to say: "Take small bites so you don't choke!" There are parts of it that are dated but much that is totally ... Read More Rating: - melancholy of anatomya remarkable and continually surprising read; a real joy filled with ideas and insights into an earlier age and a remarkable mind Rating: - Incredible..I was/am unprepared for the depth of every detail in this tome. Insights from a far-away time march through the mind and connect with todays events and daily situations. Rating: - Vivisect your mindWhere to begin discussing this book? How about again and again? For it begs never to be put down, and if finished (as if that's even possible) to be picked up again and pored over. Again. And again. And again . . . It got Samuel Jonson out of bed earlier than he wished. It kept me up later than I wished, and still "reading" it in my mind over and over again, musing on the insanity of it - the brilliant, always entertaining, enlightening, LIGHTING bolts of language and thought crammed so ... Read More Rating:  - Avoid this prudish edition resurrected from 1932Despite translating thousands of worthless Latin quotations, the editor of this edition leaves large passages from the section on Love Melancholy, which Burton waggishly wrote in Latin, untranslated. Burton demands enough of one's patience; one shouldn't have to put up with this sort of nonsense from his editor, even if one's Latin is good. After plodding through over a thousand pages, the reader has earned a little titillating trivia. Also, if you've forgotten your Latin, Burton's notes are left untranslated. ... Read More 
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