Description

Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable was published in a 1968 edition as part of the decorative The Programmed Classics series by Nelson Doubleday, featuring a foreword by poet and scholar Robert Graves and illustrations by Joseph Papin.

The Programmed Classics was a mid-20th-century decorative and collectible hardcover book series featuring uniform green bindings, textured finishes with gilt lettering encompassing renowned world literature.

Thomas Bulfinch collected and interpreted the legends of the world for everyday people, so that those who lacked extensive schooling could still understand the mythological allusions that fill classic and contemporary literature. Bulfinch’s Mythology began as three separate volumes in the 1850s and ’60s. Bulfinch published “The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes” in 1855 and then moved on to publish two more collections: “The Age of Chivalry, or the Legends of King Arthur” in 1858; and “Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages” in 1863. It has remained one of the most trusted English-language interpretations of Greek and Roman mythology, Arthurian legend, and medieval romance ever since.