Five brothers and sisters, raised by aunts and uncles in a country house, live in a private world of games, raids and secret quests, while the adults — the Olympians — go about their incomprehensible business. Told by one of the children looking back as a grown man, these linked sketches include The Burglars, The Argonauts, The Roman Road and Snowbound.
Published in 1895, years before The Wind in the Willows, it is a book about childhood written for adults, and wonderfully funny. Download the free EPUB.