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Old 11-25-2021, 08:23 AM   #2054
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell is part of the UK Kindle Daily Deal today, on sale at £0.99.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08MWW2VDL
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08MWW2VDL

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Explore the Hero's Journey in stories as old as humanity and as new as last night's dream

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change. — Joseph Campbell

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world’s mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.

As part of the Joseph Campbell Foundation’s Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, this third edition features expanded illustrations, a comprehensive bibliography, and more accessible sidebars.

As relevant today as when it was first published, The Hero with a Thousand Faces continues to find new audiences in fields ranging from religion and anthropology to literature and film studies. The book has also profoundly influenced creative artists—including authors, songwriters, game designers, and filmmakers—and continues to inspire all those interested in the inherent human need to tell stories.

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More years ago than I care to remember, I was assigned Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces for a humanities class. Sadly I was majoring in engineering, and study time was tight, and I didn't give Hero the attention it deserved. But I still remember I liked it.

Now Campbell's The Power of Myth, which appears to be an edited transcript of the many hours of interviews he did with Bill Moyers for the PBS series of the same name, is on sale for $1.99 in the US (Kindle and Kobo) and £1.49 in the UK. (At least through the length of the sample, it's a transcript.) I would expect this to be pretty interesting too, at least the sample is, although I'm not sure I've ever read something this long in this kind of format before.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/product/B004QZACH6/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-power-of-myth
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004QZACH6/
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