Pagan Papers
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: one of 450 copies printed for the English market
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: quarter leather marbled boards rebound copy. Binding slightly shaky; rear ads present)
Before the world came to know him as the gentle genius behind The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame announced his literary arrival with Pagan Papers, a collection of lyrical essays that captures the aching beauty of the natural world and the liberating spirit of a life lived beyond society's stifling conventions. Published in 1894, this early work presents a series of meditative prose pieces that celebrate the English countryside, Pan-worship, and the innocent pleasures of wandering, daydreaming, and communing with nature — a creed that is unapologetically, joyfully pagan. Written in a style at once whimsical and richly allusive, the essays illustrate Grahame's extraordinary gift for conjuring atmosphere and his deep reverence for the wild, unhurried rhythms of the natural world. The collection occupies a significant place in the late Victorian literary landscape, sitting at the intersection of the Aesthetic Movement and nascent nature writing, and its pages shimmer with a romantic yearning that would later bloom into his immortal animal fables. For readers who cherish writing that transforms the ordinary into the transcendent, Pagan Papers remains an irresistible invitation to step off the well-worn path.
Author: Kenneth Grahame
Format: Hardback
Published: 1894, Elkin Mathews and John Lane / Stone and Kimball
Genre: Essays
Edition: one of 450 copies printed for the English market
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: quarter leather marbled boards rebound copy. Binding slightly shaky; rear ads present)
Before the world came to know him as the gentle genius behind The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame announced his literary arrival with Pagan Papers, a collection of lyrical essays that captures the aching beauty of the natural world and the liberating spirit of a life lived beyond society's stifling conventions. Published in 1894, this early work presents a series of meditative prose pieces that celebrate the English countryside, Pan-worship, and the innocent pleasures of wandering, daydreaming, and communing with nature — a creed that is unapologetically, joyfully pagan. Written in a style at once whimsical and richly allusive, the essays illustrate Grahame's extraordinary gift for conjuring atmosphere and his deep reverence for the wild, unhurried rhythms of the natural world. The collection occupies a significant place in the late Victorian literary landscape, sitting at the intersection of the Aesthetic Movement and nascent nature writing, and its pages shimmer with a romantic yearning that would later bloom into his immortal animal fables. For readers who cherish writing that transforms the ordinary into the transcendent, Pagan Papers remains an irresistible invitation to step off the well-worn path.