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A collection of reminiscences of childhood. The adventures of five brothers and sisters growing up in rural England in the late nineteenth century. Typical of his culture and his era, Grahame casts his reminiscences in imagery and metaphor rooted in the culture of Ancient Greece; to the children whose impressions are recorded in the book, the adults in their lives are "Olympians," while the chapter titled "The Argonauts" refers to Perseus, Apollo, Psyche, and similar figures of Greek mythology. Grahame's reminiscences, in The Golden Age and in the later Dream Days (1898), were 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".
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Keywords
- Bildungsromans
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Country life -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction
- GITenberg
- Pastoral fiction
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