Dream Days
Dream Days is a collection of stories by English writer Kenneth Grahame, 1898 under the original title Dream Days First published mainly because of the story contained in it The dragon who does not want to fight ( The Reluctant Dragon) was known.
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With the stories of five children - Edward, Selina, Harold, Charlotte and an unnamed narrator - was Kenneth Grahame's book such a success with critics and readers that his ten years later in 1908 published book The Wind in the Willows in the former comparison turned out disappointing.
A century later, is now clear that this collection of humorous, lyrical and prone - moving stories had a profound influence on the children's and youth literature. More than an idolization of childhood is the book as Julia Eccleshare describes in a new edition, a festival of joy for the imaginative play of children that they removed from the adults and strengthens when they are due to the realities of their lives largely powerless ("a celebration of the imaginative play of children Which sets them apart from adults and empowers them at a time when shipped, within the realities of Their Lives, They Are Largely powerless ").
In 21 October, ( The Twenty -first of October ) Selina, a devoted admirer of Nelson tries to mark the day of Trafalgar with the lighting of a bonfire - with devastating consequences.
In The walls are of jasper ( The Walls Were as of Jasper ) escapes from the child - narrator a languishing visit with neighbors, in which he loses himself in the images of a beautiful book: images never lie, are never mixed, nor forsake them; and for this story I can even create ( "Pictures never lied, never shuffled nor evaded; and as for the story, i could invent it myself" ).
The dragon did not want to fight ( The Reluctant Dragon) tells the story of a friendship between a little boy and a gallant, poems written Dragons, who had settled in the hill country of Berkshire and blissful legally ignorant about is how the alerting his presence in the local villages is taken. It is up to the boy to ensure that the expected arrival of Saint George does not bring about the destruction of his new friend. This most famous of the stories was made into a film in 1941 as an episode titled The Reluctant Dragon by The Walt Disney Company.
Other stories of the book include the Dies Irae, Mutabile Semper, The Magic Ring ( The Magic Ring), The Saga of the seas (A Saga of the Seas ) and a departure (A Departure ).
The book was written from the perspective of a back -offsetting adult and assumes the frustrations of children, adults face who have forgotten how it is to be young ( " forgotten what is like to be young" ), which is also in the following sentence the dragon who does not want to fight clearly is: Look, father, you know that each of us doing his thing. You know your sheep, and the weather, and things from; I am familiar with dragon out ( " Look here, father, you know we've each of us got our line You know about sheep, and weather, and things; . I know about dragons. " )
Grahame's main characters are vivid and presented in a convincing manner, whether they pirate games, invent magical areas, visit the circus or just bicker with each other wild.
External links and sources
- Dream Days (Google Books)
- Dream Days (Classic Reader)
- Dream Days (The Literature Network)
- New Books of 2010 ( Catalogue of the Folio Society, p 14)
- Literary work
- Literature (19th century)
- Literature ( English )
- Children 's and Youth Literature