Myths to Live By

Myths to Live By

Cover of the first edition
Author	Joseph Campbell
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Mythology
Published	1972 (Viking)
Pages	287 (1973 Bantam edition)
ISBN	978-0140194616

Myths to Live By is a 1972 book, a collection of essays, originally given as lectures at the Cooper Union Forum, by mythologist Joseph Campbell between 1958 and 1971. The work has an introduction by Johnson E. Fairchild.

The deep power of myth on the inner, spiritual lives of human beings throughout the ages (including our own age) is the common theme running throughout all of the essays in the collection.

Publication history

• Viking Press, New York, 1972, ISBN 978-0-14-019461-6
• Paladin Press, London, 1985, ISBN 978-0-586-08528-8
• Bantam Books, New York, 1988, ISBN 978-0-553-27088-4
• Penguin Books, Australia, 1993, ISBN 978-0-14-019461-6
• Souvenir Press, London, 2000, ISBN 978-0-285-64731-2
• Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2011, (ebook) ISBN 978-1-61178-000-0

External links

• Summary from the Joseph Campbell Foundation