Metamorphoses: A New Translation by Charles Martin6 reviews Ovid W. W. Norton & Company, 2005 My Workshop Participants Love this Translation! + Outstanding Translation of Ovids masterpiece + A great classic and great translation + Great Book             The Hearing Trumpet9 reviews Leonora Carrington Exact Change, 2004 The most amazing book i've ever read + mind twisting, superb surrealism + The Hearing Trumpet + A treasure book             The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth36 reviews Robert Graves Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966 in the search of the buck + My Personal Opinion + An insightful read this is the best book i readed. i made it by the portuguese translation, but it's all there. for the studants of paganism, wicca, witchcraft and old religions, it is a must. the history and the links among centuries, folks and cultures, since the stone ages. in ours days, is an outrage to call ...             Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays16 reviews Northrop Frye Princeton University Press, 2000 sweeping vision + A Marvelous Book + Essential + One cannot explain it all             The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Modern Library Classics) Laurence Sterne Modern Library, 2004 Introduction and Notes by Robert Folkenflik Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in England in a series of volumes from 1759 to 1767. An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of ...             When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth16 reviews Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. Barber Princeton University Press, 2004 fairy tales become facts + Dense with Ideas + I'm telling all my friends to read this book!!! as a fan of mythology i enjoyed finding out its origins. I had never heard of this book until amazon recommended it because i was ordering another. i found this one more interesting than the one i intended to order. this book will give insight into some of the familiar and unfamiliar stories of ...             From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers9 reviews Marina Warner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996 Excellent + From the Beast to the Blonde on Fairy Tales and Their Tellers + Fab Find for Fairy Tale Fans + One of My Favorites + There is witchcraft in your voice ...             The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion24 reviews Mircea Eliade Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987 A brilliant introduction to the study of religion + Lost Worlds of the Sacred + Sacred and the Profane + Whew. + A marvelous work             It Happened in Boston? (20th Century Rediscoveries)18 reviews Russell H. Greenan Modern Library, 2003 It Happened in Boston? + A superb read - highly recommended + Thanks to Jonathan Lethem, I found this unique and brilliant tour-de-force. + Recognized + Now You Get It ...             Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)17 reviews Knut Hamsun Penguin Classics, 1998 and what is human nature? the wild? the cultured? + The gospel of new romanticism + Apollo versus Marsyas in Knut Hamsun's Pan + A splendid glimpse of Norwegian nature and culture in the late 1800's             Religion and the Decline of Magic9 reviews Keith Thomas Scribner's, 1986 Fascinating Book! + An indispensable text and wonderful experience + Pivotal but not Perfect + Impossible to resist! + Excellent!             The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount20 reviews Italo Calvino Harvest Books, 1977 Knights and viscounts + entertaining fantasies with subliminal messages + To be halved or not to be halved...which is better? + Early Calvino             Philosophers Speak of God3 reviews Humanity Books, 2000 Talk and Talk... + An Important Reissue on Panentheism + Excellent intro to process philosophy Charles Hartshorne is one of the modern founders of process theology. A protege of Alfred North Whitehead, who plays a pivotal role in the foundation of process thought with his book Process and Reality. The particular subject here, Philosophers Speak of God, developed in partnership with William ...             Lanark: A Life in 4 Books (Harvest Book)12 reviews Alasdair Gray Harcourt, 1996 Massively weird + A landmark in Scottish literature + A legible nightmare This book is a lot easier to read than you might think. Folks have compared it to Joyce's Ulysses mostly because of its complicated structure (the parts are numbered Four, Prologue, One, Two, Three, Epilogue, and the last few chapters) and detailing of a single city (Scotland's Glasgow) but the ...             Happiness: A History15 reviews Darrin M. McMahon Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006 Happiness recovered + Happiness: A History + A marvelous book + Echo of Paul Johnson             Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art15 reviews Lewis Hyde North Point Press, 1999 Masterful non-fiction writing + A captivating and informative work. + Original mythological interpretation + The Trickster's crucial role + Great, but the naysayers are right as well             The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic26 reviews Alberto Manguel Harcourt, 2000 Curiously Addictive + Magnificent work + Places left out + An Atlas of Whimsy             The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images, New and Updated Edition5 reviews Marija Gimbutas University of California Press, 1982 Not so dusty archaeology + Poor sweethearts + important work in the field of archeology Amazing art and sculptures from neolithic Europe. Worthy of Henry Moore. I would love to know where I could get replicas of the sorrowful god / goddess sculptures. Fascinating discoveries about the origins of the ancient greek religion. A must for anyone interested in European mythology             Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy16 reviews Susan Neiman Princeton University Press, 2004 Who'd a thunk it...an actual philosophy book + "Banal" Evil, Moral Responsiblity, and Interent Wrong + They Way Philosophy Could Be Done But All too Often Isn't This is a very good book. It actually is a philosophy book in that it makes one think about the fundamental: Is there a purpose? It does this by describing how philosophers over the last 300 years have defined and explained suffering and evil. I had not read many of the authors but Neiman is ...             The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology116 reviews Robert Wright Vintage, 1995 A self-help book + A Seminal Popularization of Evolutionary Psychology + tabula rasa be gone + Not Quite Moral + A very interesting point of view