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OverviewThe tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gipsy caravans and motor cars and even into battle. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kenneth Grahame , Patrick Benson , William HorwoodPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Imprint: HarperCollins Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.214kg ISBN: 9780006479260ISBN 10: 000647926 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 19 October 1995 Recommended Age: From 5 years Audience: Children/juvenile , General/trade , Children / Juvenile , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsDoes The Wind in the Willows <\i>need an annotated edition? Suggesting that Grahame's prose, encrusted with the patina of age and affect, has become an obstacle to full appreciation of the work, Lerer offers the text with running disquisitions in the margins on now-archaic words and phrases, Edwardian social mores and a rich array of literary references from Aesop to Gilbert and Sullivan. Occasionally he goes over the top - making, for instance, frequent references alongside Toad's supposed mental breakdown to passages from Kraft-Ebing's writings on clinical insanity - and, as in his controversial Children's Literature, a Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter <\i>(2008), displays a narcissistic streak: This new edition brings The Wind in the Willows<\i>...into the ambit of contemporary scholarship and criticism on children's literature... Still, the commentary will make enlightening reading for parents or other adults who think that there's nothing in the story for them - and a closing essay on (among other topics) the links between Ernest Shepard's art for this and for Winnie the Pooh <\i>makes an intriguing lagniappe. (selective resource list) (Literary analysis. Adult/professional) <\i> (Kirkus Reviews) The humorous yet philosophical riverbank fantasy starring Mole, Ratty and Toad, is brought vividly to life in Grahame's classic exploration of English country life. A delight for any age. (Kirkus UK) Author InformationKenneth Grahame, 1859-1931, English author. He was a secretary in the Bank of England from 1908 until 1918. His works, noted for their humour and charm, include The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898), scenes of his childhood in England, and the children's classic The Wind in the Willows (1908). Grahame also compiled the Cambridge Book of Poetry for Young People (1916). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |