Author: Kenneth Grahame
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-05
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0674034473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Begun as a series of stories told by Kenneth Grahame to his six-year-old son, The Wind in the Willows has become one of the most beloved works of children’s literature ever written. It has been illustrated, famously, by E.H. Shepard and Arthur Rackham, and parts of it were dramatized by A.A. Milne as Toad of Toad Hall. A century after its initial publication it still enchants. Much in Grahame’s novel—the sensitivity of Mole, the mania of Toad, the domesticity of Rat—permeates our imaginative lives (as children and adults). And Grahame’s burnished prose still dazzles. Now comes an annotated edition of The Wind in the Willows by a leading literary scholar that instructs the reader in a larger appreciation of the novel’s charms and serene narrative magic. In an introduction aimed at a general audience, Seth Lerer tells us everything that we, as adults, need to know about the author and his work. He vividly captures Grahame’s world and the circumstances under which The Wind in the Willows came into being. In his running commentary on the novel, Lerer offers complete annotations to the language, contexts, allusions, and larger texture of Grahame’s prose. Anyone who has read and loved The Wind in the Willows will want to own and cherish this beautiful gift edition. Those coming to the novel for the first time, or returning to it with their own children, will not find a better, more sensitive guide than Seth Lerer.
Author: Kenneth Grahame
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-04-24
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781511856621
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Wind in the Willows (Bulgarian edition)
Author: Kenneth Grahame
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-05-10
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781511855365
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Wind in the Willows (Russian edition)
Author: Gloria Levine
Publisher: Learning Links
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 27
ISBN-13: 9780881220582
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Novel-Ties study guides contain reproducible pages in a chapter by chapter format to accompany a work of literature of the same title.
Author: Kenneth Grahame
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2015-10-30T23:56:40Z
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Wind in the Willows, the story of four animals and their adventures in the idyllic English countryside, started out as bedtime stories Grahame would tell his son. He eventually started writing them down, and finally produced this much-loved childrens classic. In continuous print since 1908, The Wind in the Willows has been illustrated countless times and adapted to stage, radio, and screen. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author: Kenneth Grahame
Publisher: Troll Communications
Published: 1991-10
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780816725632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since its first publication in 1908, generations of adults and children have cherished Kenneth Grahame's classic, The Wind in the Willows."" For in this entrancing, lyrical world of gurgling rivers and whispering reeds live four of the wisest, wittiest, noblest, and most lovable creatures in all literature--Rat, Mole, Badger, and Toad of Toad Hall. Like true adventurers, they glory in life's simplest pleasures and natural wonders. But it is Toad, cocky and irrepressible in his goggles and overcoat, whose passion for motorcars represents the free and fearless spirit in all of us; just as it's Toad's downfall that inspires the others to test Grahame's most precious theme--the miracle of loyalty and friendship.
Author: Douglas Post
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780871291721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drama scripts - An adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The wind in the willows; A play for five female characters.
Author: Kenneth Grahame
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-01-06
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781523278299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Wind in the Willows Tales from the Riverbank Kenneth Grahame Illustrated by Paul Bransom 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. In 1909, Theodore Roosevelt, then President of the United States, wrote to Grahame to tell him that he had "read it and reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends". The novel was in its thirty-first printing when playwright A. A. Milne adapted a part of it for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. In 2003, The Wind in the Willows was listed at number 16 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.