Fiction · 1898
Dream Days
Dream Days follows the same unnamed boy narrator and his siblings from Kenneth Grahame's earlier The Golden Age through more of the small, vivid dramas of a Victorian childhood spent mostly avoiding the adults ("the Olympians") who don't understand them — including "The Reluctant Dragon," the book's best-known piece, about a peaceable dragon and a boy who has to arrange a fake battle between it and St. George so everyone can go home satisfied without anyone getting hurt.
Kenneth Grahame published Dream Days in 1898 as a sequel to The Golden Age (1895); years before The Wind in the Willows (1908) made him famous, these two books had already established his reputation for writing childhood without condescension.
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1859–1932 · Modern
Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) was born in Edinburgh, raised by his grandmother in Berkshire after his mother’s death, and spent his working life at the Bank of England, where he rose to be Secretary. The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898), about childhood, were followed by The Wind in the Willows (1908), written for his son Alastair.
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