

The prose is beautiful and occasionally requires the use of a dictionary - I had to look up “asperities.” Written as a children’s story, The Wind in the Willows is enjoyed by many grown-ups who relish Grahame’s ability to evoke the long summer days of childhood. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camaraderie, and. Alternately slow moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, destruction of private property (plenty of that), paganism, and a happy ending. The Wind in the Willows is a childrens novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908.

The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Wind in the Willows (version 3)
