The Anatomy of Melancholy
1638 · 547 pages
Melancholy comes from everything, the Oxford scholar Robert Burton concludes, from diet and air to love and religion. A thousand pages of quotation follow, and his one prescription is not to be idle.
★ 7.2
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1630 – 1639
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Discourse on Method
1637 · 207 pages
Good sense is the most equally distributed thing in the world, Descartes begins, then shows how to use it: doubt all you can, divide each problem, and rebuild only on what survives.
★ 7.1
Life is a Dream
1635 · 96 pages
Spanish Golden Age drama peaks here. King Basilio locks his newborn son in a tower to outrun a prophecy, then has him drugged, brought to court, and told it was a dream.
★ 7.0
Three Major Plays
1631 · 300 pages
Lope de Vega wrote hundreds of plays and handed Spain a national theater. In Fuente Ovejuna a village murders its tyrant lord, and under torture every villager claims the killing for the town.
★ 6.0