from New York Review of Books (April 1, 2001)
9780940322660 |
details & prices | 547 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 2.50 in. | 2.70 lbs | List price $27.95
About: One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century.