How long does it take to read The Hero with a Thousand Faces?
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell takes about 7 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1949. 416 pages, about 114,400 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Joseph Campbell's 1949 work of comparative mythology argues that stories of heroes from around the world share one basic pattern, which he calls the monomyth. He describes a hero who leaves everyday life for a realm of supernatural wonder, meets powerful forces there, and returns with a gift for others. Campbell organizes this journey into three broad phases: departure, initiation and return. He draws on religious, spiritual and literary traditions, and he uses Freudian and Jungian ideas, along with the structure of rites of passage, to interpret the pattern.
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Subjects: Mythology, Psychoanalysis, Mythologie, Helden (personen), Psychanalyse, Long Now Manual for Civilization
