The Greatest Books of All Time on Melancholy

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
178 The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire 1857 French French
200 The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 1982 Portuguese Portuguese
593 Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi Giacomo Leopardi 1831 Italian Italian
1139 The Unquiet Grave Cyril Connolly 1944 British English
1273 Selected Poems of Lord Byron Lord Byron 1800 British English
1574 Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 1818 British English
1591 Wry-Blue Loves Tristan Corbière 1873 French French
1815 The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman A. E. Housman 1939 British English
2165 Essays Charles Lamb 1823 British English
2176 Paris Spleen Charles Baudelaire 1869 French French
2361 Bartleby & Co Enrique Vila-Matas 2000 Spanish Spanish
2769 Amsterdam Stories Nescio 1918 Dutch Dutch
2799 The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton 1621 British English
3587 The Complete Writings of Alfred de Musset Alfred de Musset 1907 French French
3636 Odes John Keats 1820 British English
3638 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Lord Byron 1812 British English
3954 Ελεγεία και Σάτιρες Kostas Karyotakis 1927 Greek Greek
3954 Νηπενθή Kostas Karyotakis 1921 Greek Greek
4124 Either Or Soren Kierkegaard 1843 Danish Danish
4948 Les Regrets Joachim Du Bellay 1558 French French
5393 The Poems of Emily Bronte Emily Brontë 1846 British English
5819 René François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1802 French French
5859 Selections Francesco Petrarca 1340 Italian Italian
6005 The Oxford Book Of English Verse Arthur Quiller-Couch 1900 British English
6005 Mes Heures Perdues Félix Arvers 1833 French French
7216 Sonnets Luis de Góngora 1601 Spanish Spanish
7216 The Poems Of William Collins William Collins 1746 British English
7216 Poetic Meditations Alphonse de Lamartine 1820 French French
7216 Complete Poems Of Alfred De Musset Alfred de Musset 1857 French French
7216 Enamels And Cameos Théophile Gautier 1852 French French
7216 Selected Poems Of Paul Verlaine Paul Verlaine 1896 French French
7216 Selected Writings Jules Laforgue 1901 French French
7216 Poems Of Thomas Lovell Beddoes Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1851 British English
7216 Nepenthe George Darley 1835 Irish English
7216 Poems Of Lionel Johnson Lionel Johnson 1895 British English
7216 The City Of The Dreadful Night James Thomson 1880 British English
7216 Complete Poems Ernest Dowson 1905 British English
7216 Selected Poems Of Eduard Mörike Eduard Mörike 1838 German German
7216 Poems Of Theodor Storm Theodor Storm 1852 German German
7216 Poems Of Georg Trakl Georg Trakl 1913 Austrian German
7756 One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine Paul Verlaine 1948 French French
8293 Fredman's Epistles Carl Michael Bellman 1999 Swedish Swedish
8342 The Poems Of Li Po Li Po -750 Chinese Classical chinese
8952 Eu Augusto Dos Anjos 1912 Brazilian Portuguese
9659 Sebastian Dreaming Georg Trakl Austrian German
10067 In The Café Of Lost Youth Patrick Modiano 2007 French French
10915 Gaspard De La Nuit Aloysius Bertrand 1842 French French
11366 La Vie Rêvée Antonia Pozzi Italian Italian
13753 The Poetical Works Of Johnson, Parnell, Gray And Smollett George Gilfillan 1855 Scottish English
14834 Listen To The Warm Rod McKuen 1967 American English
15914 Amiel's Journal Henri-Frédéric Amiel 1883 Swiss French
16792 A Medicine For Melancholy And Other Stories Ray Bradbury 1959 American English
17162 A Little Larger Than The Entire Universe Fernando Pessoa 1998 Portuguese Portuguese
17162 The Melancholy Of Untold History Minsoo Kang Unknown Unknown
17162 Selected Writings Gerard de Nerval 1853 French French