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ISBN
  
978-0140194616

Published
  
1972 (Viking)

Subject
  
Mythology

4.2/5
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Language
  
English

Author
  
Joseph Campbell

Page count
  
287 (1973 Bantam edition)

Country
  
United States of America

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Pages
  
287 (1973 Bantam edition)

Similar
  
Joseph Campbell books, Mythology books, Other books

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Myths to Live By is a 1972 book, a collection of essays, originally given as lectures at the Cooper Union Forum, by mythologist Joseph Campbell between 1958 and 1971. The work has an introduction by Johnson E. Fairchild.

Contents

The deep power of myth on the inner, spiritual lives of human beings throughout the ages (including our own age) is the common theme running throughout all of the essays in the collection.

Publication history

  • Viking Press, New York, 1972, ISBN 978-0-14-019461-6
  • Paladin Press, London, 1985, ISBN 978-0-586-08528-8
  • Bantam Books, New York, 1988, ISBN 978-0-553-27088-4
  • Penguin Books, Australia, 1993, ISBN 978-0-14-019461-6
  • Souvenir Press, London, 2000, ISBN 978-0-285-64731-2
  • Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2011, (ebook) ISBN 978-1-61178-000-0

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