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Legends of Charlemagne (Hardcover)
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Legends of Charlemagne (Hardcover)
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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. Many readers of
the present edition will probably recall coming in contact with the
work as children, and, it may be added, will no doubt discover from
a fresh perusal the source of numerous bits of knowledge that have
remained stored in their minds since those early years. Yet to the
majority of this great circle of readers and students the name
Bulfinch in itself has no significance. Thomas Bulfinch was a
native of Boston, Mass., where he was born in 1796. His boyhood was
spent in that city, and he prepared for college in the Boston
schools. He finished his scholastic training at Harvard College,
and after taking his degree was for a period a teacher in his home
city. For a long time later in life he was employed as an
accountant in the Boston Merchants' Bank. His leisure time he used
for further pursuit of the classical studies which he had begun at
Harvard, and his chief pleasure in life lay in writing out the
results of his reading, in simple, condensed form for young or busy
readers. The plan he followed in this work, to give it the greatest
possible usefulness, is set forth in the Author's Preface.
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