{"product_id":"2940013475649","title":"THE GOLDEN AGE","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          PAGE\u003cbr\u003e          PROLOGUE: THE OLYMPIANS        3\u003cbr\u003e          A HOLIDAY                     13\u003cbr\u003e          A WHITE-WASHED UNCLE          29\u003cbr\u003e          ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS        39\u003cbr\u003e          THE FINDING OF THE PRINCESS   53\u003cbr\u003e          SAWDUST AND SIN               67\u003cbr\u003e          'YOUNG ADAM CUPID'            79\u003cbr\u003e          THE BURGLARS                  93\u003cbr\u003e          A HARVESTING                 107\u003cbr\u003e          SNOWBOUND                    121\u003cbr\u003e          WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT       133\u003cbr\u003e          THE ARGONAUTS                143\u003cbr\u003e          THE ROMAN ROAD               161\u003cbr\u003e          THE SECRET DRAWER            179\u003cbr\u003e          'EXIT TYRANNUS'              193\u003cbr\u003e          THE BLUE ROOM                205\u003cbr\u003e          A FALLING OUT                225\u003cbr\u003e          'LUSISTI SATIS'              239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA HOLIDAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE masterful wind was up and out, shouting and chasing, the lord of the\u003cbr\u003emorning. Poplars swayed and tossed with a roaring swish; dead leaves\u003cbr\u003esprang aloft, and whirled into space; and all the clear-swept heaven\u003cbr\u003eseemed to thrill with sound like a great harp. It was one of the first\u003cbr\u003eawakenings of the year. The earth stretched herself, smiling in her\u003cbr\u003esleep; and everything leapt and pulsed to the stir of the giant's\u003cbr\u003emovement. With us it was a whole holiday; the occasion a birthday--it\u003cbr\u003ematters not whose. Some one of us had had presents, and pretty\u003cbr\u003econventional speeches, and had glowed with that sense of heroism which\u003cbr\u003eis no less sweet that nothing has been done to deserve it. But the\u003cbr\u003eholiday was for all, the rapture of awakening Nature for all, the\u003cbr\u003evarious outdoor joys of puddles and sun and hedge-breaking for all.\u003cbr\u003eColt-like I ran through the meadows, frisking happy heels in the face of\u003cbr\u003eNature laughing responsive. Above, the sky was bluest of the blue; wide\u003cbr\u003epools left by the winter's floods flashed the colour back, true and\u003cbr\u003ebrilliant; and the soft air thrilled with the germinating touch that\u003cbr\u003eseems to kindle something in my own small person as well as in the rash\u003cbr\u003eprimrose already lurking in sheltered haunts. Out into the brimming\u003cbr\u003esun-bathed world I sped, free of lessons, free of discipline and\u003cbr\u003ecorrection, for one day at least. My legs ran of themselves, and though\u003cbr\u003eI heard my name called faint and shrill behind, there was no stopping\u003cbr\u003efor me. It was only Harold, I concluded, and his legs, though shorter\u003cbr\u003ethan mine, were good for a longer spurt than this. Then I heard it\u003cbr\u003ecalled again, but this time more faintly, with a pathetic break in the\u003cbr\u003emiddle; and I pulled up short, recognising Charlotte's plaintive note.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082913267952,"sku":"2940013475649","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013475649_p0.jpg?v=1763581898","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013475649","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}