Bulfinch, Thomas,  1796-1867 <br/><br/>
The Age of Fable 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulfinch%27s_Mythology  Release date is 2004-01-01 
<br/><br/>Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team  Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team 
<br/><br/> "The Age of Fable" by Thomas Bulfinch is a collection of mythological tales published in 1855. This groundbreaking work retold Greek and Roman myths for English-speaking readers who lacked classical language training. Bulfinch combined ancient stories with quotations from contemporary poets, creating a bridge between classical learning and modern literature. His accessible prose invited middle-class readers into worlds of gods, heroes, and legendary adventures, making classical mythology comprehensible without requiring knowledge of Latin or Greek. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Mythology 
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