The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Sinceitsreleasein1949,TheHerowithaThousandFaceshasinfluencedmillionsofreadersbycombiningtheinsightsofmodernpsychologywithJosephCampbell’srevolutionaryunderstandingofcomparativemythology.Inthesepages,CampbelloutlinestheHero’sJourney,auniversalmotifofadventureandtransformationthatrunsthroughvirtuallyalloftheworld’smythictraditions.HealsoexplorestheCosmogonicCycle,themythicpatternofworldcreationanddestruction.AspartoftheJosephCampbellFoundation’sCollectedWorksofJosephCampbell,thisthirdeditionfeaturesexpandedillustrations,acomprehensivebibliography,andmoreaccessiblesidebars.Asrelevanttodayaswhenitwasfirstpublished,TheHerowithaThousandFacescontinuestofindnewaudiencesinfieldsrangingfromreligionandanthropologytoliteratureandfilmstudies.Thebookhasalsoprofoundlyinfluencedcreativeartists—includingauthors,songwriters,gamedesigners,andfilmmakers—andcontinuestoinspireallthoseinterestedintheinherenthumanneedtotellstories.