The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
Folklore & Mythology
What if the stories we’ve told for thousands of years are all variations of the same journey? In *The Hero with a Thousand Faces*, Joseph Campbell explores the universal patterns found across the world’s myths, introducing the influential concept of the Hero’s Journey—a cycle of departure, transformation, and return that appears again and again in stories of adventure and discovery. Drawing on comparative mythology and psychology, Campbell also examines the mythic cycle of creation and destruction. Thought-provoking and deeply influential, this classic explores why humans tell stories and what those stories reveal about our shared search for meaning, identity, and transformation.