Dream Days
Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at
6:35 am
Product Description
In the matter of general culture and attainments, we youngsters stood on pretty level ground. True, it was always happening that one of us would be singled out at any moment, freakishly, and without regard to his own preferences, to wrestle with the inflections of some idiotic language long rightly dead; while another, from some fancied artistic tendency which always failed to justify itself, might be told off without warning to hammer out scales and exercises, and ... More >>
Dream Days
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Rating: 5 / 5
I am not sure today’s children would enjoy this book. The 19th Century British-isms will probably be quite tedious to any but the most precocious of children. And nothing really “happens” so to speak. No adventures of overwhelming magnitude. Rather, the children’s imagination governs what happens throughout the book. Small things are turned into events of great importance. Children brought up with video games will most likely be bored. But for an adult, ahhh! This is a find. It will make you yearn for the idyllic childhood you never had or anybody had for that matter.
Each chapter is like sunlight shining on a bead of dew in April. Or something similarily poetic. Grahame’s the better writer anyway.
Rating: 5 / 5