Grahame, Kenneth

The Golden Age

Kenneth Grahame’s The Golden Age looks at the world through a child’s eyes, where grown-ups seem strange, rule-bound, and almost mythic. The story then opens into a lively holiday outing: children invent games, quarrel over lions, and roam through fields and changing weather with restless energy. Rich, witty, and lyrical, it captures the wonder of play, nature, and the way childhood makes ordinary things feel larger than life.