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The Age of Fable

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One of the eleven children of Charles Bulfinch, Thomas was born on July 15, 1796, at Newton, Massachusetts. After graduating Harvard in 1814, he taught in the Boston Latin School for a year. From 1818 to 1825, he lived his family in Washington D.C., where his father had been appointed architect of the Capitol. After his return to Boston in 1825, he engaged in several business enterprises, none of which was successful, and in 1837, he became a clerk at the Merchant's Bank of Boston, holding this position until his death in Boston on May 27, 1876. rnLacking ambition in a business career, Bulfinch was content with his position at the Merchant's Bank, which left him considerable leisure time for study and writing. He devoted himself to crystallizing and popularizing the vast literature of myth and legend and, in 1855, his most successful and best-known work, The Age of Fable, was published. In this book, widely studied today, he covered a wide range of mythology, from Greek dan Roman to Scandinavian and Oriental.rnBulfinch was very interested in the study of natural history and for six years was secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History. Although he was little concerned with political or world affairs, he did support William Lloyd Garrison in the anti-slavery movement.rnBulfinch's other published works are: Hebrew Lyrical History (1853), The Age of Chivalry (1858), The Boy Inventor (1860), Legends of Charlemagne (1863), Poetry of the age of fable (1863), Shakespeare adapted for reading classes (1865), and Oregon and Eldorado (1866)

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820 BUL a

Publisher

New York : Grolier., 1958

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vi; p.498; 24 cm

Language

Indonesia

ISBN/ISSN

717200019

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English Literatures/Kesusastraan Inggris

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Cet.1

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fabel

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