Pagan Papers — Kenneth Grahame

This 1893 collection of eighteen pieces is Grahame's first book.  Rather than fantasies, it contains genial, rambling essays on such subjects as "The Romance of the Road," "The Rural Pan," "The White Poppy," "The Fairy Wicket," and "The Lost Centaur."  Some of the essays prefigure his fictions, especially his masterpiece, The Wind in the Willows.