| The Wind in the Willows Contributor(s): Grahame, Kenneth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1514664593 ISBN-13: 9781514664599 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.12 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1060 |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 6" W x 9" (0.34 lbs) 106 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Topical - Friendship |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames valley. In 1908 Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Cookham, Berkshire, where he had been brought up and spent his time by the River Thames doing much as the animal characters in his book do-namely, as one of the phrases from the book says, "simply messing about in boats"-and wrote down the bed-time stories he had been telling his son Alistair. |