The Golden Age

Detalhes da Obra

Título:
The Golden Age

Autoria:
Kenneth Grahame

Detalhes do Artigo

Estado:
Usado / Capa com sinais de manuseamento ? Apresenta vinco no canto superior esquerdo da contra-capa / Miolo em bom estado

Capa:
Mole

Editora:
Wordsworth

Coleção:
Wordsworth Classics

Edição:
-

Ano de edição:
1995

Páginas:
202

Idioma:
Inglês

ISBN:
1-85326-152-1

Sinopse

The Golden Age (1895) is a collection of stories by Kenneth Grahame. Although less popular thanThe 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 childrens 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, Grahames 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. Grahames book remains, over a century after it was published, a classic work of literature for children and adults alike.

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