Balder the Beautiful, Part 2

The Golden Bough #11

by James George Frazer

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1923 edition by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London.

Paperback

Published February 21, 2001

About the author

Sir James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His most famous work, The Golden Bough (1890), documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe. Frazer posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science.
He was married to the writer & translator Lilly Grove (Lady Frazer)

Reviews

[Mac · Rating 5 out of 5]

At long last, I've reached the end of "The Golden Bough"! It was so satisfying to have finally reached James G. Frazer's conclusions after the thousands of pages of anthropological and historical data. Reading these books has opened my eyes to a new way of looking at myth and ritual. I'm certainly glad to have read the full 12-volume third edition, though it was at times a major slog. And yes, though this is the eleventh volume, it actually concludes the text, as the twelfth volume is a giant index of the rest of the series.