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Title The Golden Age
Author Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator Maxfield Parrish
Year 1904
Publisher John Lane
Location London
Source _empty_
Progress To be proofread
Transclusion Index not transcluded or unreviewed

CONTENTS


  PAGE
PROLOGUE: THE OLYMPIANS 3
A HOLIDAY 13
A WHITE-WASHED UNCLE 29
ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS 39
THE FINDING OF THE PRINCESS 53
SAWDUST AND SIN 67
'YOUNG ADAM CUPID' 79
THE BURGLARS 93
A HARVESTING 107
SNOWBOUND 121
WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT 133
THE ARGONAUTS 143
THE ROMAN ROAD 161
THE SECRET DRAWER 179
'EXIT TYRANNUS' 193
THE BLUE ROOM 205
A FALLING OUT 225
'LUSISTI SATIS' 239


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    PAGE
'Onto the garden wall, which led in its turn to the roof of an outhouse'   Frontispiece
'The Golden Age'   Title
'For them the orchard (a place elf-haunted, wonderful!) simply' Facing 6
'Out into the brimming sun-bathed world I sped' 14
'"I took the old fellow to the station"' 34
'Once more were damsels rescued, dragons disembowelled, and giants' 42
'Lulled by the trickle of water, I slipped into dreamland' 62
'It was easy … to transport yourself in a trice to the heart of a tropical forest' 68
'Who would have thought … that only two short days ago we had confronted each other on either side of a hedge' 86
'A great book open on his knee … a score or so disposed within easy reach' 114
'But yester-eve and the mummers were here!' 122
'"They make me walk behind, 'cos they say I'm too little, and mustn't hear"' 138
'"I'm Jason … and this is the Argo … and we're just going through the Hellespont"' 146
'"You haven't been to Rome, have you?"' 166
'I drew it out and carried it to the window, to examine it in the failing light' 188
'At breakfast Miss Smedley behaved in a most mean and uncalled-for manner' 196
'The procession passing solemnly across the moon-lit Blue Room' 218
'"Why, Master Harold! whatever be the matter? Baint runnin' away, be ee?"' 232
'Finally we found ourselves sitting silent on an upturned wheelbarrow' 250