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colorfulleo92's review against another edition
2.0
This sounded interesting but I just found it to be tediously boring. Read the majority of the book except the last pages as I just didn't want to read anymore.
admatthews's review against another edition
5.0
Extraordinary. OK, some of our knowledge has moved on in 350 years, in particular of literary and historical traditions, but the thought here is breathtaking. Browne applies Baconian reason to myth, theology and anthropology and in so doing stretches the language as it exists for him, i.e. woefully inadequate, to bursting point.
brettglass's review against another edition
4.0
buried in difficult language and dense history is a beautiful little meditation on death, funerary practices, futurity, and remembrance. the prose, when it makes sense, is incredible, particularly in the fifth and final chapter
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