The Golden Age

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The Golden Age is a nostalgic collection of semi-autobiographical childhood essays by British author Kenneth Grahame, celebrating the imaginative inner world of children in a Victorian setting.

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The Golden Age canonical 9
"The Golden Age" 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
essay collection
author Kenneth Grahame
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts imaginative inner world of children
firstPublicationYear 1895
followedBy Dream Days
genre childhood memoir
children's literature
semi-autobiographical literature
hasIllustrationsBy Maxfield Parrish
hasPart series of linked essays
hasSubject family relationships
memory and recollection
play and fantasy
hasTone nostalgic
reflective
whimsical
influenced 20th-century children's literature
isSemiAutobiographical true
language English
literaryForm essay
literaryMovement late Victorian literature
mainCharacters group of siblings
mainSubject middle-class Victorian family life
narrativePerspective first-person
notableFor lyrical prose style
romanticized view of childhood
publisher The Bodley Head
settingPeriod Victorian era
targetAudience adult readers
older children
theme childhood
contrast between childhood and adulthood
imagination
nostalgia

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Kenneth Grahame wrote The Golden Age
film L'Age d'Or hasTitleInEnglish The Golden Age
subject surface form: L'Age d'Or
The Golden Age hasTitle The Golden Age
E. H. Shepard illustrated The Golden Age
Childhood's End partTitle The Golden Age
this entity surface form: "The Golden Age"
Welcome to L.A. basedOn The Golden Age
Dream Days follows The Golden Age
Dream Days relatedWork The Golden Age
Consolation follows The Golden Age
Consolation continuesThemesFrom The Golden Age