ISBN: 9780020955603 - golden bough: abridged (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. According to legend, runaway slaves could attain a sort of freedom by breaking off a branch -- the Golden Bough -- from a sacred tree. If the runaway could kill the tree's attendant priest, he would become King of the Wood until his defeat by a new challenger. This 1890 work by Sir James George Frazer, an expert in myth and religion, was inspired by the legend. An extensive study of the cults, rites, and myths of antiquity, The Golden Bough explores ancient customs and their parallels with early Christianity. Frazer's definitions of such terms as magic, religion, and science proved highly useful to his successors, and his explications of the legends profoundly influenced generations of prominent psychologists, writers, and poets. This abridgment of his multivolume magnum opus omits footnotes and occasionally condenses text; nevertheless, as the author himself observed, all of the original work's main principles remain intact, along with ample illustrative examples.…

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Volume 1. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Underlining and Notations. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperbac. Zustand: Used: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDFolklore, Myths & Legends; Good trade paperback; tips/edges bumped; crease to spine; slight tear bottom edge front cover; edges of cover few nicks; crese where cover and spine meet; ink half title page; tanned spine; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Two classic volumes in Very Good condition, both unread, matching trade-size & sold together. THE GOLDEN BOUGH: A Study in Magic and Religion, by Sir James George Frazer, Macmillan Paperback Edition 1963, 1 Volume Abridged by the Author, 864pp. in the Strimbans cover, intact w/slight external shelfwear. + THE WHITE GODDESS: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, by Robert Graves, Farrar Straus and Giroux 1966, Amended & Enlarged Edition, 511pp. in a clean & bright yellow cover. / "THE GOLDEN BOUGH describes our ancestors' primitive methods of worship, sex practices, magic, strange rituals and festivals. Disproving the popular thought that the primitive life was a simple one, this monumental survey shows that savage man was enmeshed in a nightmare of magic, taboos, and superstitions. Revealed here is the evolution of man from savagery to civilization, from the modification of his weird and often bloodthirsty customs to the entry of lasting moral, ethical, and spiritual values." [publisher copy] "Dip into Frazer's Golden Bough and sense something of the mesh of fear and suffering and regimentation and bloody sacrifices from which civilization has meant to escape."--Harry Woodburn Chase. "A tumultuous, enthralling encyclopedia. . . one of the 20th century's most influential books."--Time. " / "The earliest European deity was THE WHITE GODDESS of Birth, Love and Death, visibly appearing as the New, Full and Old Moon, and worshipped under countless titles. She was beautiful, generous, fickle, wise, implacable. The White Goddess is far more than a long-discredited pagan deity. She is still alive, and her worship takes many strange forms both inside and outside the conventions of Western morality. In particular, she continues as the Ninefold Muse, patroness of the white magic of poetry. [] Here then is a historical grammar of poetic myth, with the more important magical elements logically deduced from scattered relics of several allied mystery-cults. It not only explains the obscure power that English romantic poetry exercises on the reasonable people of today, but provides practical solutions to many of the apparently insoluble riddles of antiquity--'What song the Sirens sang,' 'What name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among the women,' 'Where shall Wisdom be found?' and 'How to untie the Gordian Knot,' 'Who cleft the Devil's foot?'" Though old, both unread volumes--I never got around to them--have brilliant corners & crisp edges, bright & unmarked pages, square & tight bindings w/no creases in spines. …

Zustand: New. pp. 864.