The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil by Zimmer, Heinrich Robert

The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691017761)

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The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil by Zimmer, Heinrich Robert

The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil

$48.00
The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil by Zimmer, Heinrich Robert

The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil

$48.00
Format: Paperback
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Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism. In the retelling of these tales, Zimmer discloses the meanings within their seemingly unrelated symbols and suggests the philosophical wholeness of this assortment of myth.



Author: Heinrich Zimmer
ISBN-10: 069101776X
ISBN-13: 9780691017761
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/21/1971
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.00w x 0.90d
By Heinrich Zimmer
By Heinrich Zimmer
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The noted Indologist Heinrich Zimmer, born in Germany in 1890, came to the United States in 1940, at the height of his career, and was lecturing at Columbia University when he died in 1943. His other works in the Bollingen series include Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization and Philosophies of India.

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