![]() ![]() The NY Times stated If, as most critics have done, we look to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness for the answer, we will be equally disappointed. In fact, a copy of the paperback reprint of the single volume 1922 edition can be seen in the Kurtz compound along with several other books the Colonel has obviously been reading. This work also unsurprisingly heavily influenced Francis Ford Coppola s 1979 film masterpiece Apocalypse Now - especially the final act. With frontispiece after John Martin in Volume I. Its discussion of fertility rites, the sacrificial killing of kings, the dying god, the scapegoat, etc., and its analysis of the primitive mind, caught the literary imagination, and its influence may perhaps be seen most lastingly in the works of D.H. Frazer began his work merely to explain the strange rule of the priesthood or sacred kingship of Nemi and with it the legend of the Golden Bough, immortalized by Virgil, but the project grew over the years into a vast and enterprising comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, offering the thesis that man progresses from magical through religious to scientific thought. Housed in a custom green 1/4 Morocco clamshell box. ![]() ![]() Octavo, original publisher s green cloth, uncut, gilt lettered spines, a beautiful bright near-fine set. ![]()
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