Download or read book The Golden Age written by Kenneth Grahame and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Age Illustrated written by Kenneth Grahame and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and first published in book form in 1895, by The Bodley Head in London and by Stone & Kimball in Chicago. The Prologue and six of the stories had previously appeared in the National Observer, the journal then edited by William Ernest Henley.[1] 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.
Download or read book The Golden Age written by Kenneth Grahame and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dream Days written by Kenneth Grahame and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of five children growing up in rural England at the turn of the century.
Download or read book The Golden Age written by Kenneth Grahame and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age presents a series of childhood recollections written by Kenneth Grahame. It is a fascinating blend of the reminiscences of Kenneth Grahame's own childhood adventures, imagination, metaphor, and ancient Greek Legends. This style of casting his memories in imagery and metaphor rooted in the culture of Ancient Greece was famous in his era and culture. Rather than a single narrative, this work consists of a collection of short stories about the lives of five children, their mishaps, and other experiences. The children in the book called the adults Olympians and felt they no longer knew how to enjoy and have fun. Each chapter of the book depicts an adventure that the narrator and his friends got into. The author beautifully described the children's games, their view on life, their made-up stories, and their favorite fairytales that are a pleasure to read about.
Download or read book The Golden Age By Kenneth Grahame written by Kenneth Grahame and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the imaginative author of "The Wind in the Willows," an enchanting pair of books that map the imaginative landscape of childhood..
Download or read book The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame written by Kenneth Grahame and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secret Gardens written by Humphrey Carpenter and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period from the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Winnie-the-Pooh, Humphrey Carpenter examines the lives and writings of Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, George Macdonald, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, A.A. Milne and others whose works make up the Golden Age of children's literature. Both a collective biography and a work of criticism, Secret Gardens forces us to reconsider childhood classics in a new light. ' Secret Gardens permits us to see in a fresh light the interaction between cultural history and literature, and to realize that ... it wasn't mere misfits who withdrew into the writing of children's books, but rather the sort of misfits who reflected the prevailing dissatisfactions of the age.' New York Times Book Review
Download or read book The Kenneth Grahame Book written by Kenneth Grahame and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Age written by Kenneth Grahame and published by Common Reader Editions. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joy to read and reread, Kenneth Grahame's story of children is not a book designed purely for young readers. Thoughtful short stories about five endearing and creative siblings growing up in late Victorian England, the charming vignettes gently probe differences between children's and adults' perceptions of the world.
Download or read book Golden Age written by Kenneth Grahame and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looking back to those days of old, ere the gate shut behind me, I can see now that to children with a proper equipment of parents these things would have worn a different aspect. But to those whose nearest were aunts and uncles, a special attitude of mind may be allowed. They treated us, indeed, with kindness enough as to the needs of the flesh, but after that with indifference (an indifference, as I recognise, the result of a certain stupidity), and therewith the commonplace conviction that your child is merely animal. At a very early age I remember realising in a quite impersonal and kindly way the existence of that stupidity, and its tremendous influence in the world; while there grew up in me, as in the parallel case of Caliban upon Setebos, a vague sense of a ruling power, wilful and freakish, and prone to the practice of vagaries-"just choosing so: " as, for instance, the giving of authority over us to these hopeless and incapable creatures, when it might far more reasonably have been given to ourselves over them. These elders, our betters by a trick of chance, commanded no respect, but only a certain blend of envy-of their good luck-and pity-for their inability to make use of it. Indeed, it was one of the most hopeless features in their character (when we troubled ourselves to waste a thought on them: which wasn't often) that, having absolute licence to indulge in the pleasures of life, they could get no good of it. They might dabble in the pond all day, hunt the chickens, climb trees in the most uncompromising Sunday clothes; they were free to issue forth and buy gunpowder in the full eye of the sun-free to fire cannons and explode mines on the lawn: yet they never did any one of these things. No irresistible Energy haled them to church o' Sundays; yet they went there regularly of their own accord, though they betrayed no greater delight in the experience than ourselves. On the whole, the existence of these Olympians seemed to be entirely void of interests, even as their movements were confined and slow, and their habits stereotyped and senseless. To anything but appearances they were blind. For them the orchard (a place elf-haunted, wonderful!) simply produced so many apples and cherries: or it didn't, when the failures of Nature were not infrequently ascribed to us. They never set foot within fir-wood or hazel-copse, nor dreamt of the marvels hid therein. The mysterious sources-sources as of old Nile-that fed the duck-pond had no magic for them. They were unaware of Indians, nor recked they anything of bisons or of pirates (with pistols!), though the whole place swarmed with such portents. They cared not about exploring for robbers' caves, nor digging for hidden treasure. Perhaps, indeed, it was one of their best qualities that they spent the greater part of their time stuffily indoors. To be sure, there was an exception in the curate, who would receive unblenching the information that the meadow beyond the orchard was a prairie studded with herds of buffalo, which it was our delight, moccasined and tomahawked, to ride down with those whoops that announce the scenting of blood. He neither laughed nor sneered, as the Olympians would have done; but possessed of a serious idiosyncrasy, he would contribute such lots of valuable suggestion as to the pursuit of this particular sort of big game that, as it seemed to us, his mature age and eminent position could scarce have been attained without a practical knowledge of the creature in its native lair. Then, too, he was always ready to constitute himself a hostile army or a band of marauding Indians on the shortest possible notice: in brief, a distinctly able man, with talents, so far as we could judge, immensely above the majority. I trust he is a bishop by this time, -he had all the necessary qualifications, as we knew.
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Download or read book Kenneth Grahame The Golden Age written by Kenneth Grahame and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughtful short stories about five endearing and creative siblings growing up in late Victorian England, the charming vignettes gently probe differences between children's and adults' perceptions of the world.
Download or read book The Golden Age written by Kenneth Grahame and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grahame's reminiscences are 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.
Download or read book The Golden Age Classic Original Edition Annotated written by Kenneth Grahame and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and first published in book form in 1895, by The Bodley Head in London and by Stone & Kimball in Chicago.
Download or read book The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame written by Kenneth Grahame and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grahame's reminiscences are 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.
Download or read book The Golden Age written by Kenneth Grahame and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Golden Age" is an autobiographical account by Kenneth Grahame, the beloved creator of Winnie The Pooh, where he uses humor and compassion to portray his idyllic Edwardian childhood. Grahame casts his reminiscences in imagery and metaphor rooted in Ancient Greece's culture, and the children whose impressions are recorded in the book see adults as "Olympians." This delightful collection of tales will make an exciting read for people of all ages.
