There's No Literati Quite Like... E!
And Bookee! But ''E'' came first, waaaaaaay first; and since it is a lady that we are writing about here, primarily, all the more reason to have ''E'' coming first here, as well...!
EDITH HAMILTON
was born in 1867 and it wouldn't be until the time
when she turned a quite venerable sixty-three years of age that she finally saw her life's work PUBLISHED.
And, nowadays, that life's work is readily available
ENTIRELY FOR FREE
fifty years after her death on this wondrous world wide web of ours courtesy of a non-profit website called
GetBookee.org
(well... sort of!)
Check out the previews below...
But, first, read on!
The one book in particular,
from that remarkable life's body of work,
that this luminous blogger affectionates
above all
would have to be this one
right here:
The version still adorning my personal library today
is still graced by the very same cover (dust-jacket, really)
that you see above, here, indeed;
classic all the way, this tome is truly
the consummate, all-inclusive
compendium of classical mythology
juxtaposed to Christianity Thought
and that is one of the many reasons
I do adore this book!
Now get a little taste of it,
if your school's curriculum
wasn't good enough
to have forced you to do so,
already, years ago...!
The little taste that follows
in the form of a swell
summarized preview
of the contents of this classic
is, again, thanks to
GetBookee.org
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