The man in the willows : the life of Kenneth Grahame

The Resource The man in the willows : the life of Kenneth Grahame
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The man in the willows : the life of Kenneth Grahame
Title remainder
the life of Kenneth Grahame
Statement of responsibility
Matthew Dennison
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Author
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"During his regular days in London, Kenneth Grahame sat behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the Bank of England; on weekends he retired to the house in the country that he shared with his fanciful wife, Elspeth, and their fragile son, Alistair, and took lengthy walks along the Thames in Berkshire, "tempted by the treasures of hedge and ditch; the rapt surprise of the first lords-and-ladies, the rustle of a field-mouse, the splash of a frog." The result of these pastoral wanderings was his masterful creation of The Wind in the Willows, the enduring classic of children's literature; a cautionary tale for adult readers; a warning of the fragility of the English countryside; and an expression of fear at threatened social changes that, in the aftermath of the World War I, became a reality. Like its remarkable author, the book balances maverick tendencies with conservatism. Kenneth Grahame was an Edwardian pantheist whose work has a timeless appeal, an escapist whose withdrawal from reality took the form of time travel into his own past" -- goodreads
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
NjBwBT
Dewey number
  • 823.8
  • B
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
PR4727
LC item number
.D46 2019
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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