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| | The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy |
 | | English churchman and scholar Robert Burton (1576-1639) was a passionate student of medicine, history, literature, and science--the whole of human knowledge. |
 | | For this edition, the editors carefully selected those passages containing the most psychological and general interest, eliminating a good deal of nonessential material, but retaining the incomparable wit, eccentric charm, imagination, and richness of thought of the original. |
 | | In short, readers will find here the essence of Burton's vast book--the passages which, according to W. Rouse, reveal the author's "eternal freshness, his own ingenuous interest, [and] his boyish delight in a good story." Unabridged republicaton of "Burton the Anatomist, originally published by George H. Doran Company, New York, 1924. |
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