The Reluctant Dragon (Annotated)

Kenneth Grahame's The Reluctant Dragon is a witty, humane subversion of the traditional dragon-slaying legend. Set in an English pastoral landscape, it tells of a bookish boy who discovers that the local dragon is not a monster but a cultured, peaceable creature fond of poetry and conversation. With elegant irony and gentle comedy, Grahame recasts medieval romance through the sensibility of late V...