The Wind in the Willows

Complete and unabridged.

A pocket sized book - 10.5 x 15.5 cm. One of the most celebrated works of classic literature for children, "The Wind in the Willows" follows Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger from one adventure to the next - in gipsy caravans and stolen cars, to prison and back to the Wild Wood. A story of animal cunning and human camaraderie, this remains a timeless tale more than 100 years after its publication.
This edition contains all of the sixteen colour illustrations that Arthur Rackham produced for this book; most editions contain only twelve. In addition to this, Rackham's beautiful pen-and-ink chapter headings have been sensitively hand-coloured by Barbara Frith.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Kenneth Grahame was born in Edinburgh in 1859. He was educated at St. Edward's School, Oxford, but because of family circumstances he was unable to enter Oxford University. He joined the Bank of England as a gentleman clerk in 1879, rising to become its Secretary in 1898. He wrote a series of short stories published in such collections as "The Golden Age" (1895) and "Dream Days" (1898). These featured a fictional family of five children. In 1899 he married Elspeth Thomson and their only child, Alistair, was born a year later. He left the Bank in 1908 on health grounds. That same year, "The Wind in the Willows" was published. The book was not an immediate success, and he never attempted to write fiction again. However, the popularity of the novel grew steadily, and by the time of Grahame's death in 1932 it was recognized as a children's classic.

Introduction
The River Bank
The Open Road
The Wild Wood
Mr Badger
Dulce Domum
Mr Toad
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Toad's Adventures
Wayfarers All
The Further Adventures of Toad
"Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears"
The Return of Ulysses
Afterword
Further Reading
Biography