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Bulfinch's Mythology : The Age of Fable, the Legends of Charlemagne, the Age
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Bulfinch's Mythology : The Age of Fable, the Legends of Charlemagne, the Age of Chivalry Mass market paperbound - 1978

by Bulfinch, Thomas

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  • Title Bulfinch's Mythology : The Age of Fable, the Legends of Charlemagne, the Age of Chivalry
  • Author Bulfinch, Thomas
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 1978
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 545070-75
  • ISBN 9780440308454 / 0440308453
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.78 x 4.24 x 0.95 in (17.22 x 10.77 x 2.41 cm)
  • Reading level 1200
  • Themes
    • Topical: Home School
  • Library of Congress subjects Mythology, Arthurian romances
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00009138
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.209

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The religions of ancient Greece and Rome are extinct.

From the jacket flap

The justly famous "Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch contains three volumes the major contents of which are retained in this abridgment for the student and general reader. "The Age Of Fable -- The gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome, as well as the mythology of the Germanic tribes, England and the Near East. "The Legend Of Charlemange -- Accounts of the reign of the first great French Emperor, his wars and conquests. "The Age Of Chivalry -- King Arthur and his court, Lancelot and Guenever, and the death of Arthur.

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  • Rec Ref Bks in Paperback, 01/01/2000, Page 191

About the author

Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867) was an American writer, Latinist, and banker who wrote and collected the first popular English-language retellings of Greek, Roman, Eastern, Scandinavian, Arthurian, and medieval myths in his famous three-volume compilation, Bulfinch's Mythology. "Without a knowledge of mythology," he wrote, "much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood or appreciated." He added: "We trust our young readers will find it a source of entertainment," and his trust seems to have been justified, judging from the many generations who have found his books an enthralling and loving introduction to the worlds of classical and medieval myth and legend.

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