Books like The anatomy of melancholy
The anatomy of melancholy by Robert Burton reads as scholarly, contemplative. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Essays
Francis Bacon · 1618
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau · 1854
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The rambler
Samuel Johnson · 1750
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Tristes Tropiques
Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1955
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Aus meinem Leben
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1800
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Les confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1782
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De vita solitaria
Francesco Petrarca · 1879
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Über die Einsamkeit
Johann Georg Zimmermann · 1791
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Representative men
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1800
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After Babel
George Steiner · 1975
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De Occulta Philosophia
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim · 1533
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Spiritus mundi
Northrop Frye · 1976
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