Dream Days
by Kenneth Grahame
This continuation of the Golden Age is an informative image of the late Victorian era that captures the imagination in which children live. These stories are written with humor and wit because Graham depicts a special, separate universe of five siblings whose anxieties rarely intersect with the adult world they call Olympians. The collection's most famous story, The Reluctant Dragon, sees the narrator and neighbor Charlotte following the dragon's trails in the snow one winter evening. Meeting with the Circus Artist, they feast on the stories of the dragon, modest and secluded, who reluctantly fought with St. George only for the sake of convention. Graham perfectly conveys the tone of childhood, enriched with legend and romance, and not alleviating the burden of worries about adulthood.
