The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame, Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Animals - Dragons, Unicorns & Mythical by Kenneth Grahame

The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame, Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Animals - Dragons, Unicorns & Mythical by Kenneth Grahame

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The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame, Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Animals - Dragons, Unicorns & Mythical by Kenneth Grahame

The question of lions came up, but Charlotte wanted none of it. No, thank you, she said, firmly; you'll be chained up till I'm quite close to you, and then you'll be loose, and you'll tear me in pieces. I know your lions No, I won't; I swear I won't, protested Edward. I'll be quite a new lion this time, -- something you can't even imagine. . . . *Imagine The Wind in the Willows with real children in place of Kenneth Grahame's storybook animals, and you'll get a picture of this book, Grahame's The Golden Age (1895). It is a story of children in late Victorian England -- a marvel that views the world in ways that would confound the adults around them. Grahame's elegant writing make The Golden Age a joy to read and reread. He had a wonderful knack for presenting the child's view of the world, and this book brings it to full flower. The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally 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.

Kenneth Grahame was born in 1859 in Scotland. He was transferred to live with his grandparents at Berkshire, in a house near the River Thames, after his mother died, and he went to school in Oxford. He worked at the Bank of England during the day after leaving school and also produced essays, stories, and poetry, which he submitted to a variety of journals. In 1899, he married and had a son named Alastair. The Wind in the Willows began as a narrative for Alastair, and it was read aloud as a series of short stories.

Grahame only put them together in one book after that, which was released in 1908. In 1932, he died and was buried in Oxford.

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ISBN 13 9781603120616
ISBN 10 1603120610
Titel The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame, Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Animals - Dragons, Unicorns & Mythical
Autor Kenneth Grahame
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Aegypan
Erscheinungsjahr 2007-02-01
Seitenanzahl 108
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