Lewis Hyde: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (1979/2007)

By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An illuminating and transformative book, and completely original in its view of the world, The Gift is cherished by artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers. It is in itself a gift to all who discover the classic wisdom found in its pages.

Edition 25, illustrated, annotated
Publisher Vintage Books, a division of Random House, New York, 2007
ISBN 0307279502, 9780307279507
435 pages

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