Fiction · 1895
The Golden Age
Grahame narrates childhood from the inside, through a group of orphaned siblings raised by indifferent aunts and uncles they privately call "the Olympians" — grown-ups who mean well and understand nothing, and who are baffled in turn by children who would rather invent pirate raids and buried treasure than behave. The book has no real plot; it's a series of sketches, each one a single afternoon's worth of a child's total seriousness about play.
Grahame published The Golden Age in 1895, over a decade before The Wind in the Willows made him famous; it was this book's popularity — and its sequel, Dream Days — that first established him as a writer.
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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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