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 Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer.

We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.

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 Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by Sir James George Frazer Lecture VIII.