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Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. The Golden Age, hardcover, 19th Edition 1900. 232pp. +15pp.'The Invention of Fairyland' +[i] publisher's advertisments. Very good clean tight sound square, small discreet attractive bookplate featuring laurel diadem. Beautifully bound in bright gilt ruled half-morocco leather over gilt, brown and green marbled boards gently rubbed to corners and edges, 5 raised bands to spine with gilt title on leather label and gilt ruled and decorated compartments, leaves uncut deckle edge, top edge bright gilt. A lovely volume with great shelf presence and a great addition for reader and collector alike.

Excerpt from The Golden Age: Illustrated by Maxfield ParrishPractice of vagaries just choosing so' as, for instance, the giving of authority over us to these hopeless and incapable creatures, when it might far more reasonably have been given to ourselves over them. These elders, our bet ters by a trick of chance, commanded no respect, but only a certain blend of envy of their good luck - and pity - for their inability to make use of it. Indeed, it was one of the most hopeless features in their character (when we troubled ourselves to waste a thought on them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895, in London by The Bodley Head, and in Chicago by Stone & Kimball. 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.