The complete online text of Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame.

For more than eighty years, Kenneth Grahame's works have been among the most widely read of English children's writers. In his 1959 biography of Grahame, Peter Green reports that The Wind in the Willows (1908) had gone into more than one hundred editions...

By the late 1890s Kenneth Grahame had established his reputation in England and in the United States as an essayist. In 1898, at the age of thirty-nine, he further distinguished himself by becoming the youngest person to be commissioned secretary of the...

Although it has often been pointed out that The Wind in the Willows (1908), Kenneth Grahame's most enduring work, presents an idealized portrait of rural nineteenth-century England, Edmund Little in The Fantasts: Studies in J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carrol...

Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox (Knopf, 799 pp., $35) AGES OF great transition, whether they represent the brith or the death of something dear to posterity, hold out an irresistible appeal to the historical imagination. Christianity's ascent from a...

The Program Temptation by Thomas Molnar(Eerdmans, 201 pp., $11.95) I CAME UPON this book the same weekI began reading C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia to my children. What a happy coincidence! Won't their encounter with a Golden Lion and a...