Author

Publication

1966 - Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, NY, United States

Language

English

Word Count

127,750 words, Guess

Page Count

511 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100374289328
  • ISBN-139780374289324
  • Goodreads6384163
  • LibraryThing44284
  • Library of Congress Control Number97133420
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Classifications

  • DDC291.13
  • LCCPN1077 .G7 1966
  • LCCPN1077.G7 1966

Alternate Titles

  • Amended and enlarged ed

Description

The definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our time This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion, and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet's quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the relations between man and woman, and also an intensely personal document in which Graves explores the sources of his own inspiration and, as he believed, all true poetry. Incorporating all of Graves's final revisions, his replies to two of the original reviewers, and an essay describing the months of illumination in which The White Goddess was written, this is the definitive edition of one of the most influential books of our time.

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