The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

Overview

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788827510872
Publisher:	Skyline
Publication date:	11/04/2017
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

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