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The Real Kenneth Grahame
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Author : Elisabeth Galvin
language : en
Publisher: White Owl
Release Date : 2022-01-30
The Real Kenneth Grahame written by Elisabeth Galvin and has been published by White Owl this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame (1859 – 1932) was a Scot. He was four years old when his mother died and his father became an alcoholic, so Kenneth grew up with his grandmother who lived on the banks of the beloved River Thames. Forced to abandon his dreams of studying at Oxford, he was accepted as a clerk at the Bank of England where he became one of the youngest men to be made company secretary. He narrowly escaped death in 1903 when he was mistaken for the Bank’s governor and shot at several times. He wrote secretly in his spare time for magazines and became a contemporary of contributors including Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw and WB Yeats. Kenneth’s first book, Pagan Papers (1893) initiated his success, followed by The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898), which turned him into a celebrated author. Ironically, his most famous novel today was the least successful during his lifetime: The Wind in the Willows (1908) originated as letters to his disabled son, who was later found dead on a train line after a suspected suicide. Kenneth never recovered from the tragedy and died with a broken heart in earshot of the River Thames. His widow, Elspeth, dedicated the rest of her life to preserving her husband’s name and promoting his work.
The Life And Works Of Kenneth Grahame
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Author : Paul Brody
language : en
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
Release Date : 2015-03-05
The Life And Works Of Kenneth Grahame written by Paul Brody and has been published by BookCaps Study Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-05 with Fiction categories.
Kenneth Grahame’s most famous works are collected in one large book. This edition also includes a biography Grahame. The collection includes the following books: Dream Days The Golden Age The Headswoman Pagan Papers The Wind In the Willows
The Wind In The Willows
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Author : Kenneth Grahame
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-28
The Wind In The Willows written by Kenneth Grahame and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28 with Fiction categories.
The Wind in the Willows is a children's book by novelist Kenneth Grahame. It depicts the story and journeys of four animals: Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger, all living in a colorful countryside England.
Kenneth Grahame S The Wind In The Willows
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Author : Joseph Baldwin
language : en
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Release Date : 1966
Kenneth Grahame S The Wind In The Willows written by Joseph Baldwin and has been published by Dramatic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Animals categories.
The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
Kenneth Grahame Collection The Wind In The Willows And More
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Author : Kenneth Grahame
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-06-05
Kenneth Grahame Collection The Wind In The Willows And More written by Kenneth Grahame and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-05 with categories.
Contents: The Wind in the Willows Dream Days The Golden Age The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said 'Bother!' and 'O blow!' and also 'Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat. Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gavelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air. So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, 'Up we go! Up we go!' till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.
Kenneth Grahame S The Wind In The Willows
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Author : Kenneth Grahame
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Release Date : 1983-01-01
Kenneth Grahame S The Wind In The Willows written by Kenneth Grahame and has been published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-01-01 with Adventure and adventurers categories.
A brief retelling, with movable illustrations, of the escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
The Wind And Willows With Grahame Biography
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Author : Kenneth Grahame
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-03-04
The Wind And Willows With Grahame Biography written by Kenneth Grahame and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-04 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Grahame's classic fantasy is told here. The book tells of the wild adventures of Mr. Toad. This edition also includes a biography of the books author, Kenneth Grahame.
The Wind In The Willows By Kenneth Grahame
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Author : Kenneth Grahame
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-03-06
The Wind In The Willows By Kenneth Grahame written by Kenneth Grahame and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-06 with categories.
"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered." For more than a century, The Wind in the Willows and its endearing protagonists-Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and, of course, the incorrigible Toad-have enchanted children of all ages. Whether the four friends are setting forth on an exciting adventure, engaging in a comic caper, or simply relaxing by the River Thames, their stories will surprise and captivate you. Hailed as one of the most enduringly popular works of the twentieth century, this story is a classic of magical fancy and enchanting wit. Penned in lyrical prose, the adventures and misadventures of the book's intrepid quartet of heroes raise fantasy to the level of myth. Reflecting the freshness of childhood wonder, it still offers adults endless sophistication, substance, and depth. The animals' world embodies the author's wry, whimsical, and unfailingly inventive imagination. It is a world that succeeding generations of both adult and young readers have found irresistible. But why say more? To use the words of the estimable Mr. Toad himself: "Travel, change, interest, excitement!...Come inside."
Dream Days 1898 By Kenneth Grahame Children S Classics
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Author : Kenneth Grahame
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-06-02
Dream Days 1898 By Kenneth Grahame Children S Classics written by Kenneth Grahame and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-02 with categories.
Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame's 1895 collection The Golden Age (some of its selections feature the same family of five children), Dream Days was first published in 1898 under the imprint John Lane: The Bodley Head. (The first six selections in the book had been previously published in periodicals of the day-in The Yellow Book, the New Review, and in Scribner's Magazine in the United States.)The book is best known for its inclusion of Grahame's classic story The Reluctant Dragon. Like its precursor volume, Dream Days received strong approval from the literary critics of the day. In the decades since, the book has perhaps suffered a reputation as a thinner and weaker sequel to The Golden Age-except for its single hit story. In one modern estimation, both books "paint a convincingly unsentimental picture of childhood, with the adults in these sketches totally out of touch with the real concerns of the young people around them, including their griefs and rages." As with The Golden Age, the first edition of Dream Days was un-illustrated; again like the prior volume, a subsequent edition of Dream Days was published with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. The publisher's first intention was to print color plates; however, John Lane was not satisfied with the color reproductions of Parrish's pictures. Lane instead chose a new photogravure reproduction process that produced black-and-white results superior to the halftone images in the 1899 edition of The Golden Age. The Parrish-illustrated edition of Dream Days was issued by The Bodley Head in London and New York in 1902; it contained ten full-page illustrations (one for each of the eight selections plus frontispiece and title page), and six tailpieces. The quality of the images in Dream Days inspired Lane to issue a matching edition of The Golden Age, with improved photogravure plates, in 1904. Kenneth Grahame ( 8 March 1859 - 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon; both books were later adapted into Disney films.Kenneth Grahame was born on 8 March (1859) in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was a little more than a year old, his father, an advocate, received an appointment as sheriff-substitute in Argyllshire at Inveraray on Loch Fyne. Kenneth loved the sea and was happy there, but when he was 5, his mother died from complications of childbirth, and his father, who had a drinking problem, gave over care of Kenneth, his brother Willie, his sister Helen and the new baby Roland to Granny Ingles, the children's grandmother, in Cookham Dean in the village of Cookham in Berkshire. There the children lived in a spacious, if dilapidated, home, "The Mount," on spacious grounds in idyllic surroundings, and were introduced to the riverside and boating by their uncle, David Ingles, curate at Cookham Dean church. This delightful ambiance, particularly Quarry Wood and the River Thames, is believed, by Peter Green, his biographer, to have inspired the setting for The Wind in the Willows. He was an outstanding pupil at St Edward's School in Oxford. During his early years at St. Edwards, a sports regimen had not been established and the boys had freedom to explore the old city with its quaint shops, historic buildings, and cobblestone streets, St Giles' Fair, the idyllic upper reaches of the River Thames, and the nearby countryside.Grahame died in Pangbourne, Berkshire, in 1932. He is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford. Grahame's cousin Anthony Hope, also a successful author, wrote his epitaph, which reads: "To the beautiful memory of Kenneth Grahame, husband of Elspeth and father of Alastair, who passed the river on the 6th of July, 1932, leaving childhood and literature through him the more blest for all time"
The Wind In The Willows Kenneth Grahame
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Author : Kenneth Grahame
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-12-19
The Wind In The Willows Kenneth Grahame written by Kenneth Grahame and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-19 with categories.
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 Edwardian 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.