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The Wind In The Willows

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Wind In The Willows
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Kenneth Grahame
SeriesEveryman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 160
ISBN/Barcode 9781857159233
ClassificationsDewey:823.8
Audience
Children's (6-12)

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library Children's Classics
Publication Date 21 October 1993
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This classic of the English countryside, . first published in 1908, is a favourite with readers of all ages. As the late Margery Fisher wrote, 'Adults are sadly aware of the figure of Grahame himself, languishing in a city office and longing for the river- children respond to the fun, the anarchy of Toad and the entrancing detail as Grahame's son Alastair must have done when he listened to the bedside stories that became a book. ' The author invited Arthur Rackham to illustrate his book, but Rackham said he was too busy - a decision he was happily able to reconsider in 1936 when he was approached by the American publisher of the Limited Editions Club. The project, which he carried out with love and great care for the authenticity of detail, was his last- the drawings appeared first in the USA in 1939 and in Britian in 1950.

Author Biography

Kenneth Grahame was born in Edinburgh on 8 March 1859. He was brought up by his grandmother in Cookham Dene in Berkshire and went to school in Oxford before starting work at the Bank of England. He was unable to go to university because of his family's lack of money. His stories and essays were initially published in periodicals such as the Yellow Book and then collected together as Pagan Papers (1893). This was followed by The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898). The Wind in the Willows (1908) is based on letters and stories that Graham made for his only child, Alistair. The novel's popularity grew slowly over the years and A.A. Milne's dramatisation of the novel as Toad of Toad Hall brought it greater success. Kenneth Grahame died on 6 July 1932.