Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch (.ePUB)
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Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch (#01~03) + Omnibus edition(s)
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Overview: Teacher, Boston Latin School; assistant in store; attempted various business ventures without success; clerk of Merchant’s Bank, Boston, from 1837 until his death; recording secretary, Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 1842-8.
Bulfinch, in his enduringly popular book The Age of Fable, made available to a mass audience a branch of learning, classical mythology, which had previously been reserved for a privileged few. Though formally employed as a teacher for only a brief time in his youth, he drew upon a powerful pedagogical imagination to attract readers to the myths by interweaving with his narratives myth-related quotations from familiar poetry. A public-spirited man imbued with democratic educational ideals, in late middle age and in the limited leisure time his regular job allowed, he wrote eight books, six of them popularisations of important works of Western literature. The Age of Fable, to which Edward Everett Hale gave the alternate title Bulfinch’s Mythology, is the most famous.
Genre: Fiction | General Fiction/Classics
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