/lit/ - Literature

Is The Anatomy of Melancholy fun to read?

thoughts? what makes it so appealing?
>inb4 no one here reads

What am I in for?

>>16834266
(Repost from the other thread on the same topic)

I would also like to know.

In my cart as of now:
Stoner
The Anatomy of Melancholy
The World of Odysseus
The Thirty Years War

I removed The Waste Books, Memoirs from Beyond the Grave and The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert because Anatomy of Melancholy is so expensive. Was also looking at The Go-Between, though I have a feeling it drops after the opening line.

>>16834267
I would also like to know.

In my cart as of now:
Stoner
The Anatomy of Melancholy
The World of Odysseus
The Thirty Years War

I removed The Waste Books, Memoirs from Beyond the Grave and The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert because Anatomy of Melancholy is so expensive.

>>16568332
I thought it was a meme but it is such a cozy book.

Does anyone own this specific edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy? If so, would you be able to post a picture from the side so I could get a sense of how thick the book is? Or even just a measurement or description of how it feels. I've wanted to read this for some time, but this seems to be the only decent edition currently in production, and I hate reading massive, unwieldy paperbacks. I'd love to get the old multi-volume Everyman's Library or other similar versions, but they're hard to find for a reasonable price in decent condition.

will this book tell me what the heck is wrong with me and why i'm so sad all the time

>>10931417
I'm reading From Dawn to Decadence right now and Barzun really sold me on pic related. His passage on Burton has made this book top priority on my backlog.

>>10343702

Anyone here read the entire thing?

undisputed champ

this any good?

Anyone has read this book?