梦里的日子 Dream Days (Common Reader Editions)

In This companion volume to The Golden Age, Kenneth Grahame Continues his winning reminiscences of childhood. Flavored with fancy and an evocative nostalgia, Grahame's second classic collection of vignettes and inventions(including the famous tale "The Reluctant Dragon") once again captures the spirit of a family of children who live magnanimous lives of their own devising within the restraints of their ordinary English circumstance. Disdainful of the "Olympians" (those adults who watch over them, but don't see very much), the five youngsters-three boys and two girls-have an imaginative camaraderie nourished by the secret expedition and private games they share. The tame adventures Grahame details are animated by his singular ability to convey, simultaneously, the active ingenuity of youth and the reflective tenderness of memory. Written in the last few years of the 19th century, a decade before Grahame's masterpiece, The Wind in the Willows, Dream Days and The Golden Age remain beguiling today. The author's fidelity to the felt experience of childhood is so obvious and rewarding I'd not be suprised to find confident readers of the and older caught in the web of story the weaves; older readers have no excuse not to revel in the wonder of these marvelous books.

Kenneth Grahame was born in Edinburgh in 1859. His career at the Bank of England, which spanned three decades, was overshadowed by the literary achievement of three books that have earned him the esteem and affection of readers of all ages: tow volumes of

Introduction
1 The Twenty-first of October
2 Dies Irae
3 Mutabile Semper
4 The Magic Ring
5 Its Walls Were as of Jasper
6 A Saga of the Seas
7 The Reluctant Dragon
8 A Departure