The Wind in the Willows (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

The Wind in the Willows (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) - Hardcover

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The Wind in the Willows (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
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The Wind in the Willows (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) - Hardcover

The Wind in the Willows (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) - Hardcover

by Kenneth Grahame
$57.53
$57.53

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by Kenneth Grahame (Author)

With the arrival of spring and fine weather outside, the good-natured Mole loses patience with spring cleaning. He flees his underground home, and encounters Rat who teaches Mole how to use a row boat. The two friends team up with Badger and Toad, and go on many adventures together. The friends soon learn that Toad lives a reckless life, having crashed seven cars, been hospitalised three times, and spent a fortune on fines. Mole, Rat, and Badger follow Toad on his adventures, and try to help him realize what good friends he has, while doing their best to turn his life around.

Alternately slow moving and fast paced, The Wind in the Willows 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 2002, Mr. Toad was voted Number 38 among the 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900 by Book magazine.

This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

Number of Pages: 140
Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: December 30, 2020
ISBN9781774760925
Author Kenneth Grahame
PublisherRoyal Classics
GenreLiterature and Education
FormatHardcover
PublishedDecember 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages140
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the third of four children. When he was five, his mother died, and his father sent the children to live with relatives in England. Kindly treated yet emotionally isolated, the Grahame children constructed a world of childhood pleasures. Although Kenneth left that world at the age of nine when he went to St. Edward's School, its memory remained alive, even when he found no equal happiness in his adult life. Lack of funds ended his dream of attending Oxford and forced him to take a position with the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. In 1891, he anonymously published the first of his evocations of childhood, The Olympians, in The National Observer. The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898) established his fame. The Wind in the Willows, written to entertain his son, Alastair, was published in 1908. He wrote little thereafter, spending his remaining years in extensive traveling and in final retreat to the tranquility of the English countryside.

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