Mircea Eliade

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1968
  • Latest Book:
    November 2018
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Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Myth and Reality

    What This Series Means It is the thesis of World Perspectives that man is in the process of developing a new consciousness which, in spite of his apparent spiritual and moral captivity, can eventually lift the human race above and beyond the fear, ig...

  • Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries

  • Myths, Rites, Symbols

  • The Forbidden Forest

  • Rites and Symbols of Initiation

    Organizing data from cultures the world over, Mircea Eliade, one of the preeminent interpreters of world religion in the twentieth century, lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instructi...

  • Tales of the Sacred and the Supernatural

  • Youth Without Youth and Other Novellas

  • The Old Man and the Bureaucrats

    Proposes the means by which the therapist can help validate stepfamilies as viable units, creating integration of old loyalties and new ties. Reprint of the 1979 ed. published by Univ. of Notre Dame Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ...

  • Images and Symbols

    Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an ess...



  • Bengal Nights

    Set in 1930s Calcutta, this is a roman à clef of remarkable intimacy. Originally published in Romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate awakenings of Alain, an ambitious youn...

  • Two Strange Tales

    No event in our world is real, my friend. Everything that occurs in this universe is illusory . . . And in a world of appearances, in which no thing and no event has any permanence, any reality of its own-whoever is master of certain forces can do an...

  • The Myth of the Eternal Return

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    This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing ...

  • Youth Without Youth

    Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history -- a man who th...

  • Cosmos and History

    Had we not feared to appear overambitious, we should have given this book a subtitle: Introduction to a Philosophy of History. For such, after all, is the purport of the present essay; but with the distinction that, instead of proceeding to a specula...

  • Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent

    My attic is the same as ever: quiet, lonely, sad. I’m going to write The Novel of the Short-Sighted Adolescent. But I’ll write it as if I’m writing the author’s Diary. My book won’t be a novel, but a collection of comments, notes, sketche...

  • Gaudeamus

    In this exuberant and touching portrait of youth, Eliade recounts the fictional version of his university years in late 1920’s Bucharest. Marked by a burgeoning desire to "suck out all the marrow of life," the protagonist throws himself into his st...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mircea Eliade has published 16 books.

Mircea Eliade does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Gaudeamus, was published in November 2018.

The first book by Mircea Eliade, Myth and Reality, was published in June 1968.

No. Mircea Eliade does not write books in series.
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