Download or read book The Golden Age written by Kenneth Grahame and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age (1895) is a collection of stories by Kenneth Grahame. Although less popular than The Wind in the Willows (1908), which would go on to become not only a defining work of Edwardian English literature, but one of the most popular works of children’s fiction in the world, The Golden Age is a moving portrait of youth, an understated autobiographical meditation made for children and adults alike. Recalling his youth among elders who exemplified Victorian values of stoicism and quiet decency, Kenneth Grahame refers to these hallowed figures as the “Olympians” whose presence provided both order and necessary balance to his rambunctious, imaginative boyhood. Now an adult himself, Grahame wonders if he has become one of these “Olympians,” and looks back on his youth not only for an answer, but for a reaffirmation of the joy and freedom of a childhood spent among friends. In the stories that follow, he recalls the games they played, the places they discovered, and the legends they made of the normal, the boring, and the everyday found all around them. Filled with references to classical Greek mythology, Grahame’s collection is nostalgic for a world left behind, yet open to reconstituting a reality more wonderful for its common nature. The Golden Age is not just a book about the experience of childhood, but a study of the past that must remain present within us. Grahame’s book remains, over a century after it was published, a classic work of literature for children and adults alike. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Golden Age is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book The Golden Age Illustrated written by Kenneth Grahame and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Golden Age of Illustration' refers to a period customarily defined as lasting from the latter quarter of the nineteenth century, until just after the First World War. In this period of no more than fifty years the popularity, abundance and most importantly the unprecedented upsurge in the quality of illustrated books marked an astounding change in the way that publishers, artists and the general public came to view this hitherto insufficiently esteemed art form.
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 The Golden Age written by Kenneth Grahame and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 134 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 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 The Golden Age written by Kenneth Grahame and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back into a nostalgic era with Kenneth Grahame's enchanting collection, "The Golden Age." First published in 1895, this anthology of childhood memoirs immerses readers in the whimsical and imaginative world of Grahame’s youth, drawing rich parallels with Ancient Greek mythology. In this beautifully crafted work, Grahame transforms his childhood memories into a vibrant tapestry of imagery and metaphor. The children in these stories view their adult counterparts as "Olympians," while episodes like "The Argonauts" evoke the legendary figures of Greek myth, blending the innocence of childhood with timeless mythological themes. Here’s a thought-provoking question: How does Grahame’s use of Greek mythology enhance the nostalgic exploration of childhood, and what does it reveal about the way we perceive our formative years? Discover how Grahame’s reflections on childhood are infused with the grandeur of myth, offering a unique lens through which to view the innocence and adventure of youth. This collection not only celebrates the magic of childhood but also connects it to the rich traditions of ancient storytelling. Are you ready to journey through the golden age of childhood with "The Golden Age"? Immerse yourself in this timeless blend of memory and myth, and relive the wonder of youth through Grahame’s evocative prose. Experience the magic of Kenneth Grahame’s nostalgia. Purchase "The Golden Age" now, and let the mythical and memorable moments of childhood capture your imagination.
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 Golden Age written by Kenneth Grahame and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 174 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 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.
Download or read book Best of Kenneth Grahame Set of 4 Bestseller Books The Headswoman The Golden Age The Wind in the Willows Dream Days written by and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best of Kenneth Grahame (Set of 4 Bestseller Books) The Headswoman/ The Golden Age/ The Wind in the Willows/ Dream Days This Combo Collection (Set of 4 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: The Headswoman The Golden Age The Wind in the Willows Dream Days
Download or read book The Kenneth Grahame Book The Golden Age Dream Days The Wind in the Willows With a Portrait written by Kenneth Grahame and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Age 1895 by Kenneth Grahame a Novel Original Version written by Kenneth Grahame and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895, in London by The Bodley Head, and in Chicago by Stone & Kimball. (The Prologue and six of the stories had previously appeared in the National Observer, the journal then edited by William Ernest Henley.) 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. The original English and American editions of the book were printed without illustrations. A later edition, published in Britain and America in 1899 by The Bodley Head, featured black-and-white artwork by Maxfield Parrish - nineteen full-page illustrations and twelve tailpieces. The full-page pictures accompany the eighteen chapters of the book, plus a frontispiece.A 1915 edition contains 19 full-page colour illustrations by R J Enraght-Moony. In 1928, an edition illustrated by EH Shepard was brought out. Kenneth Grahame ( 8 March 1859 - 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon; both books were later adapted into Disney films. Kenneth Grahame was born on 8 March (1859) in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was a little more than a year old, his father, an advocate, received an appointment as sheriff-substitute in Argyllshire at Inveraray on Loch Fyne. Kenneth loved the sea and was happy there, but when he was 5, his mother died from complications of childbirth, and his father, who had a drinking problem, gave over care of Kenneth, his brother Willie, his sister Helen and the new baby Roland to Granny Ingles, the children's grandmother, in Cookham Dean in the village of Cookham in Berkshire. There the children lived in a spacious, if dilapidated, home, "The Mount," on spacious grounds in idyllic surroundings, and were introduced to the riverside and boating by their uncle, David Ingles, curate at Cookham Dean church. This delightful ambiance, particularly Quarry Wood and the River Thames, is believed, by Peter Green, his biographer, to have inspired the setting for The Wind in the Willows.He was an outstanding pupil at St Edward's School in Oxford. During his early years at St. Edwards, a sports regimen had not been established and the boys had freedom to explore the old city with its quaint shops, historic buildings, and cobblestone streets, St Giles' Fair, the idyllic upper reaches of the River Thames, and the nearby countryside. Grahame died in Pangbourne, Berkshire, in 1932. He is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford. Grahame's cousin Anthony Hope, also a successful author, wrote his epitaph, which reads: "To the beautiful memory of Kenneth Grahame, husband of Elspeth and father of Alastair, who passed the river on the 6th of July, 1932, leaving childhood and literature through him the more blest for all time.."..
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 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.
