The Penguin Kenneth Grahame

by Kenneth Grahame, Naomi Lewis (Introduction)

Kenneth Grahame's writings have bewitched children and adults alike for over eighty years. Collected in this superb volume are his three major works. The Golden Age and Dream Days - exquisite evocations of childhood far removed from the adult 'Olympian' world - show his remarkably delicate appreciation of the minds of children. Grahame's masterpiece, The Wind in the Willows, written originally to entertain his son, has enchanted successive generations with its Arcadian vision and has become a literary classic. The book includes an introduction by Naomi Lewis.

Genres: Fiction, Classics

309 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1932

About the author

Kenneth Grahame was a British writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Scottish by birth, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children. After attending St Edward's School in Oxford, his ambition to attend university was thwarted and he joined the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. Before writing The Wind in the Willows, he published three other books: Pagan Papers (1893), The Golden Age (1895), and Dream Days (1898).

Reviews

[Gary Miller · Rating 3 out of 5]

The writing was excellent. However, I was expecting more writings in the vein of The Wind in the Willows. Perhaps more from these original animal characters. Alas, the rest of the omnibus excepting for a couple of other stories, consisted of child characters, their thoughts and doings. Well done, but simply not what I was hoping for. Still the writing was excellent.

[Lydia · Rating 5 out of 5]

The golden age and dream days were both fantastically evocative of how it feels to be a child - and wind in the willows is a wonderful story!

Also the use of language in these three works is splendid- Kenneth Grahame crafted truly beautiful and very wholesome feeling visages in his work.

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