The Golden Age: Annotated
Kenneth Grahame
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(, May 18, 2019)
Kenneth Grahame and first distributed in book structure in 1895, by The Bodley Head in London and by Stone and Kimball in Chicago. The Prologue and six of the accounts had recently shown up in the National Observer, the diary then altered by William Ernest Henley. Broadly lauded upon its first appearance – Algernon Charles Swinburne, writing in the Daily Chronicle, called it "one of only a handful couple of books which are well-near unreasonably admirable for applause" – the book has come to be viewed as a great in its kind. Ordinary of his way of life and his time, Grahame throws his memories in symbolism and representation established in the way of life of Ancient Greece; to the youngsters whose impressions are recorded in the book, the grown-ups in their lives are "Olympians", while the section titled "The Argonauts" alludes to Perseus, Apollo, Psyche, and comparative figures of Greek folklore. Grahame's memories, in The Golden Age and in the later Dream Days (1898), were outstanding for their origination "of an existence where youngsters are secured unending fighting with the grown-up 'Olympians' who have completely overlooked how it feels to be youthful" – a topic later investigated by J.M. Barrie and different creators. The main versions were not outlined. A release distributed in Britain and America by The Bodley Head in 1899 highlighted halftone high contrast fine art by Maxfield Parrish – 19 full-page delineations and twelve rear ends. The full-page pictures were a frontispiece and one going with every one of the eighteen parts. In 1904 Lane distributed another version with new photogravure multiplications of the Parrish pictures, coordinating the first outlined release of Dream Days (1902).