Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows (Deluxe Library Edition)

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Engage Classics
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781774379851
• ISBN-10: 1774379856
• Artikelnr.: 64370454

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Grahame (1859 - 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, which are The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad and The Reluctant Dragon.