The adventures of five brothers and sisters growing up in rural England in the late nineteenth century.
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 ...
The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame
In 1850 the Industrial Revolution came to an end. In 1851 the Great Exhibition illustrated to the whole world the supremacy of industrial England. For the next twenty years Britain...
The Golden Age: Images from the Klemantaski Collection
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...
Hailed as a landmark book when it was first published in 1984, "The Golden Age" by Bob Haak remains the seminal book on the subject of Dutch painting in the...
After completing this course your students will say with confidence, "Yes, I can read Russian literature." Readings include an English introduction to the author to provide a full background without...
Phaethon Prime Rhadamanth Humodified encounters an old man who accuses him of being an imposter and an alien from Neptune who reveals that he has had essential parts of his memory removed.
Graphic novel. Comic superheroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places.
The famous story comes from Ovid's Metamorphoses. These stories of transformation are among the most influential subjects in world literature. In this collection, Heinz Janisch retells seventeen selected myths for children.
The Golden Age
This text is the concluding volume of Gore Vidal's epic narratives, embodying the passage of American history.
This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term â ~The Golden Ageâ (TM).
The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated and bestselling Narratives of Empire series-a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World...
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, ...
THE GOLDEN AGE is the final, eponymous novel that brings to an end what Gabriel Garc a M rquez has called 'Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels or novelised histories', NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE.
Kenneth Grahame's unjustly neglected collections of vignettes, reminiscences, and inventions capture the ingenuities of a family of children - three boys and two girls - who live magnanimous lives nourished by the secret expeditions and ...
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.
The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated and bestselling Narratives of Empire series-a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War.