The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

Overview

No new edition of Bulfinch's classic work can be considered complete without some notice of the American scholar to whose wide erudition and painstaking care it stands as a perpetual monument. The Age of Fable has come to be ranked with older books like Pilgrim's Progress, Gulliver's Travels, The Arabian Nights, Robinson Crusoe, and five or six other productions of world-wide renown as a work with which every one must claim some acquaintance before his education can be called really complete

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412159111
Publisher:	eBooksLib
Publication date:	04/21/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	472 KB

Editorial Reviews

[Mary Woods] read[s] in a clear and pleasant voice without attempting to inject drama where there is none.”

Audiofile

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated…Our book is an attempt to solve this problem, by telling the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement.”

Thomas Bulfinch

Narrator George Guidall provides a splendid narration of this two-part classic reference work. In Part Two, Guidall offers further stories from the Golden Age, before turning to Eastern mythology, Norse mythology, and the Druids. Guidall is remarkable with women’s voices, softening his natural timbre just enough to create the necessary illusion. Although Bulfinch treats Eastern mythology and Norse mythology with informative explanations rather than traditional storytelling, Guidall still manages to engage by recounting the accounts of Prester John, Beowulf, Thor, and the Nibelungen Lied. Guidall turns this into a must-have audio experience for anyone wishing to understand our cultural iconography. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

MAY 2014 - AudioFile