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    The Golden Age
    The Golden Age
    The Golden Age
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    The Golden Age

    By Kenneth Grahame

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    Grahame’s reminiscences are notable for their conception “of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult ‘Olympians’ who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young”--a theme later explored by J. M. Barrie and other authors.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteven Vey
    Release dateApr 6, 2017
    ISBN9788826047164
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    Kenneth Grahame

    Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for one of the all-time classics of children’s literature, The Wind in the Willows, as well as for The Reluctant Dragon.

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