The Golden Age - Kenneth Grahame

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       Kenneth Grahame

      The Golden Age

      Published by Good Press, 2021

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664573971

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       PROLOGUE: THE OLYMPIANS

       A HOLIDAY

       A WHITE-WASHED UNCLE

       ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS

       THE FINDING OF THE PRINCESS

       SAWDUST AND SIN

       ‘YOUNG ADAM CUPID’

       THE BURGLARS

       A HARVESTING

       SNOWBOUND

       WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT

       THE ARGONAUTS

       THE ROMAN ROAD

       THE SECRET DRAWER

       ‘EXIT TYRANNUS’

       THE BLUE ROOM

       A FALLING OUT

       ‘LUSISTI SATIS’

       BOOKS BY KENNETH GRAHAME

       Table of Contents

“Once more were damsels rescued, dragons disembowelled. . . .” Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
“. . . He was always ready to constitute himself a hostile army or a band of marauding Indians” 6
“‘Where’s Harold?’ I asked presently. ‘Oh, he’s just playin’ muffin-man as usual’” 16
“When at last the atmosphere was clear of his depressing influence, we met despondently in the potato-cellar” 34
“Instead of active ‘pretence,’ with its shouts and its perspiration, how much better—I held—to lie at ease and pretend to one’s self, in green and golden fancies” 40
“. . . And then, my cheek on the cool marble, lulled by the trickle of water, I slipped into dreamland out of real and magic world alike” 64
“‘Now we’ll go on,’ began Charlotte once more” 70
“Edward led the race home at a speed which one of Ballantyne’s heroes might have equalled but never surpassed” 88
“This overland route had been revealed to us one day by the domestic cat, when hard pressed in the course of an otter-hunt” 104
“A straight flagged walk led up to the cool-looking old house, and my host, lingering in his progress at this rose-tree and that, forgot all about me at least twice” 112
“Meanwhile Charlotte and I crouched in the window-seat, . . .” 124
“‘She’s off with those vicarage girls again,’ said Edward” 136
“We put the Argo’s head upstream, since that led away from the Larkin province” 148
“Then he stood up, and he was very straight and tall, and the sunset was in his hair and beard as he stood there, high over me” 174
“Westward the clouds were massing themselves in a low violet bank; below them, to north and south, as far round as the eye could reach, a narrow streak of gold ran out ... I turned for a last effort” 186
“‘I’ve been chopping up wood,’ he explained, in a guilty sort of way” 200
“We entered in noiseless file, the room being plunged in darkness, except for a bright strip of moonlight on the floor” 214
“Shops came first, of course, . . .” 230
“. . . Selina and Charlotte were busy stuffing Edward’s rabbits with unwonted forage, bilious and green” 250

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