The Golden Age

by Kenneth Grahame from 1895

About

Grahame's The Golden Age (1895) — the predecessor to Dream Days — is a series of linked sketches about childhood, narrated by a boy looking back on the paradise of imaginative freedom that adults have forgotten. The 'Olympians' (adults) are distant, incomprehending figures; the children inhabit a parallel world of adventure and feeling. The book established Grahame as a prose stylist and directly paved the way for The Wind in the Willows.

The Golden Age

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35.8k
Scenes
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Duration
~4 hr 29 min

17 sections

35.8k words
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1
THE GOLDEN AGE
360:16
2
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
480:22
3
PROLOGUE: THE OLYMPIANS
1.2k8:48
4
A HOLIDAY
2.6k19:09
5
A WHITE-WASHED UNCLE
1.2k9:15
6
ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS
1.9k13:59
7
THE FINDING OF THE PRINCESS
2.1k15:40
8
SAWDUST AND SIN
3.6k26:59
9
THE BURGLARS
2.1k15:45
10
A HARVESTING
2.1k15:50
11
SNOWBOUND
1.5k11:01
12
WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT
1.2k8:53
13
THE ARGONAUTS
2.7k20:35
14
THE ROMAN ROAD
2.6k19:35
15
THE SECRET DRAWER
3.5k26:31
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THE BLUE ROOM
2.9k21:45
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A FALLING OUT
4.6k34:15