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The masks of God / Joseph Campbell.
LIBRA - Special BL311 .C272 1991 v.3-4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mythology.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Penguin Compass, [1991]
- Summary:
- Campbell offers an explanation of Eastern mythology as it developed into the distinctive religions of Egypt, India, China, and Japan. "The myth of eternal return, which is still basic to Oriental life, displays an order of fixed forms that appear and disappear through all time".--Joseph Campbell.
- Contents:
- v. 1. Primitive mythology
- v. 2. Oriental mythology
- v. 3. Occidental mythology
- v. 4. Creative mythology.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Viking, 1959-1968.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has v. 1-2 wanting.
- ISBN:
- 0140194436
- 9780140194432
- 0140194428
- 9780140194425
- 014019441X
- 9780140194418
- 0140194401
- 9780140194401
- OCLC:
- 53865670
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