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The Golden Age: Original and Unabridged

The Golden Age: Original and Unabridged

Grahame, Kenneth

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1981138692
ISBN13: 9781981138692
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 17 2017
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and first published in book form in 1895. Widely praised upon its first appearance - Algernon Charles Swinburne, writing in the Daily Chronicle, called it one of the few books which are well-nigh too praiseworthy for praise - the book has come to be regarded as a classic in its genre.Typical of his culture and his era, Grahame casts his reminiscences in imagery and metaphor rooted in the culture of Ancient Greece; to the children whose impressions are recorded in the book, the adults in their lives are Olympians, while the chapter titled The Argonauts refers to Perseus, Apollo, Psyche, and similar figures of Greek mythology. Grahame's reminiscences, in The Golden Age and in the later Dream Days (1898), were notable for their conception of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult 'Olympians' who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young - a theme later explored by J.M. Barrie and other authors.

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