Short Fiction Grahame, Kenneth: Dream Days. v2. 03 Dec 2015

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Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)

First published 1898.

Version 2 revised December 2015 to remove illustrations still under copyright in “Life+70” countries. The text of this book is in the public domain in countries where copyright is “Life+80” or less, and in the USA.

By the author of The Wind in the Willows, The Golden Age, Pagan Papers, The Headswoman.

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This collection of children’s fiction and reminiscences of childhood is a sequel to Grahame’s 1895 collection The Golden Age, featuring the same family of five children. The book is best known for its inclusion of Grahame's classic story “The Reluctant Dragon,” which was adapted as a Disney film in 1941. In one modern estimation, both books “paint a convincingly unsentimental picture of childhood, with the adults in these sketches totally out of touch with the real concerns of the young people around them, including their griefs and rages.” (—Excerpted from Wikipedia.)

Grahame relates the imaginings of children with a deft touch, and the reader is caught up in those heartfelt and sometimes amusing worlds. The children are particularly fond of adventures with knights, princesses, and dragons. Read this, and recall the child you used to be.

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This collection is quite a bit more child-friendly than The Golden Age, and The Reluctant Dragon is a must-read for all ages! (I think the wonderfully funny movie “Dragonheart” [Sean Connery, Dennis Quaid] owes its theme to this story.)
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