Liveright Publishing Corporation, September 2021. Hardcover. A cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector, and Angela Carter. Now, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of..... More
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Classics, April 1965. Turtleback Binding. A story of guile, treachery, loyalty and desperate courage This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular strength and directness the progress of Siegfried's love for the peerless Kriemhild, the wedding of Gunther - her brother - and Brunhild, the..... More
Penguin Classics, January 0001. Paper Back. Composed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a fusion of Arthurian legend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound spiritual fable. It recounts the quest of the knights of Camelot - the..... More
Indiana University Press, June 1962. Trade Paperback. The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. Trade Paperback. The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex..... More
Harry N. Abrams, March 1983. Cloth. Quarto. {9' x 11 & 1/2') In dustjacket with marginal darkening/foxing. Grey cloth covered boards with sun tanned edges. Silver stamped lettering along spine. End page design of fish pattern by Theodore Kalomirakis.[216 pages]. More
Ballantine Books, October 1994. Trade Paperback. "Unusually accessible and useful . . . An eye-opener to readers into the universality and importance of myth in human history and culture."--William E. Paden, Chair, Department of Religion, University of Vermont For as long as human beings have had language, they have had..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, December 2003. Trade Paperback. Professor Jan Harold Brunvand expands his examination of the phenomenon of urban legends, those improbable, believable stories that always happen to a friend of a friend. The paperback version of Brunvand's latest collection of urban legends and folklore which was preceded..... More
Harpercollins Publisher, November 1988. Oversized Hardcover. More
HarperCollins Publisher, August 1989. Oversized Hardcover. More
New World Library, July 2012. Trade Paperback. In these pages, beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the Space Age. He posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually within us as well, and that a new mythology is implicit in that realization. But what is this new mythology..... More
New World Library, July 2012. Trade Paperback. In these pages, beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the Space Age. He posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually within us as well, and that a new mythology is implicit in that realization. But what is this new mythology..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, October 1991. Trade Paperback. The primitive roots of the mythology of the world are examined in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 1976. Soft Cover. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 1976. Soft Cover. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1964. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1962. Trade Paperback. More
Doubleday, May 1988. Oversized Hardcover. More
Broadway, June 1988. Oversize Softcover. The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminient scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the music of the..... More
HarperResource, November 1988. Oversized Hardcover. More
HarperResource, December 1988. Oversized Hardcover. More
HarperResource, February 1994. Oversized Hardcover. More
Pub Group West, October 2001. Hardcover. This title focuses on the symbols and metaphors of Judeo-Christian tradition and investigates how modern culture often misinterprets them. The scope of the text ranges across religious and mytholgical history to geography. The style is one of scholarly story-telling. Minor shelf wear on the..... More
Doubleday, January 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Some minor dust staining in the edges of the print block. More
