The Golden Age
Before he wrote The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame looked back at childhood in these linked sketches of five orphaned brothers and sisters left in the care of distracted grown-ups. To the children the adults are remote and baffling creatures they call the Olympians, forever busy with dull concerns and blind to the real world of gardens, games, and imagined empires. Tender and funny, the pieces catch the secret seriousness of being young and the small betrayals of growing up. Grahame writes with a clarity that made the book a favorite of readers who had long left the nursery behind. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.
About the Author
Kenneth Grahame (1859 to 1932) was a British writer born in Edinburgh who spent much of his career as secretary of the Bank of England. Best remembered for The Wind in the Willows, he also wrote the childhood sketches collected in The Golden Age and…
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Listen to The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame free online. The full audiobook (3 hr 57 min, 18 chapters, read by volunteer narrators) streams free on this page.
The Golden Age (1895) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prologue: The Olympians | 7:33 | |
| 2 | A Holiday | 13:46 | |
| 3 | A White-Washed Uncle | 7:38 | |
| 4 | Alarums and Excursions | 12:27 | |
| 5 | The Finding of the Princess | 14:36 | |
| 6 | Sawdust and Sin | 13:35 | |
| 7 | "Young Adam Cupid" | 12:49 | |
| 8 | The Burglars | 14:11 | |
| 9 | A Harvesting | 17:08 | |
| 10 | Snowbound | 9:58 | |
| 11 | What They Talked About | 7:24 | |
| 12 | The Argonauts | 19:23 | |
| 13 | The Roman Road | 19:39 | |
| 14 | The Secret Drawer | 12:59 | |
| 15 | "Exit Tyrannus" | 9:01 | |
| 16 | The Blue Room | 17:37 | |
| 17 | A Falling Out | 12:02 | |
| 18 | "Lusisti Satis" | 15:16 |
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