For the first time this one-volume edition restores Frazer's bolder theories and sets them within the framework of a valuable introduction and notes.

The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for ...

WHO does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough?

The book scandalized the British public upon its first publication, because it included the Christian story of Jesus in its comparative study, thus inviting an agnostic reading of the Lamb of God as a relic of a pagan religion.

A modern abridgement of Sir James Frazer's 1925 one-volume version of his longer multi-volume work on "the study of magic and origins of religion" from an anthropological viewpoint.

The primary aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia.