The Golden Age

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Have you pored over The Wind in The Willows? If you have, then you will also love and enjoy reading The Golden Age. In this story of memories by Kenneth Grahame, the dearly loved originator of Winnie The Pooh, booklovers are gotten a chance to know the author’s life as a child.

The introductory phrases of the Prologue give a heartbreaking memory of his younger days. At only 5 years old, his mother passed away due to giving birth to his sibling and his father who had a continuing dilemma with excessive drinking sent off his 4 kids, as well as the small child, to the guardianship of their grandmother in Berkshire. The sprawling hoary home was a fortune pile of channels and lofts, full of used stuffs and gave the kids with lots of enjoyment. Their uncle who was a clergyman in an adjacent town, always visited them to go boating and strolling in the near forests. These are the reminisces that are very delightfully captivated in Kenneth’s stories. Although he was intelligent in school, problems with money did not grant him to continue his studies in college. He decided to become a bank employee. His literary profession started rather in advance, with the print of short fiction in different periodicals at the age of 20.

Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish novelist, renowned for The Wind in the Willows, a classic of tales for the young. He also penned The Reluctant Dragon, both stories were afterwards rendered into Disney movies, which are The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad and The Reluctant Dragon.

He is also known for these works: Pagan Papers in 1893; Dream Days in 1898 including The Reluctant Dragon in 1898; The Headswoman in 1898; The Wind in the Willows in 1908, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard; Bertie’s Escapade in 1949, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.
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