The Adventures of Mr. Toad: From The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
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Follows the escapades of Mr. Toad as he escapes from jail, is reunited with Mole, Ratty, and Badger, and together with them battles the weasels to reclaim Toad Hall. Companion to "The River Bank."Tags
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Third of a four-part series of excepts from The Wind in the Willows, covering chapters 6 & 8, and the beginning of 10 of Grahame's classic story, the whole set comprising a kind of Reader's Digest Condensed Book for American Children.
The illustrations are pedestrian, but the rating is for Grahame's prose, which does not suffer from being edited down to the essentials, although it is rather like scraping the whipped cream, cherry, and sauce off of an ice-cream sundae.
I am classing the individual volumes as a novelette.
(Dates for most recent reading.)
The illustrations are pedestrian, but the rating is for Grahame's prose, which does not suffer from being edited down to the essentials, although it is rather like scraping the whipped cream, cherry, and sauce off of an ice-cream sundae.
I am classing the individual volumes as a novelette.
(Dates for most recent reading.)
Lovely illustrations, excellent abridgement. I saw an unabridged version of "The Wind in the Willows", illustrated by Michael Hague, and the illustrations were not nearly so appropriate and enjoyable. In Michael Hague's case, the illustrations are just too fanciful, but in Inga Moore's case, they are just right.
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Kenneth Grahame was born in Edinburgh on March 3, 1859. When he was five years old, his mother died of scarlet fever and he nearly died himself, of the same disease. His father became an alcoholic and sent the children to Berkshire to live with relatives. They were later reunited with their father, but after a failed year, the children never heard show more from him again. Sometime later, one of his brothers died at the age of fifteen. He attended St. Edward's School as a child and intended to go on to Oxford University, but his relatives wanted him to go into banking. He worked in his uncle's office, in Westminster, for two years then went to work at the Bank of England as a clerk in 1879. He spent nearly thirty years there and became the Secretary of the Bank at the age of thirty-nine. He retired from the bank right before The Wind in the Willows was published in 1908. He wrote essays on topics that included smoking, walking and idleness. Many of the essays were published as the book Pagan Papers (1893) and the five orphan characters featured in the papers were developed into the books The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898). The Wind in the Willows (1908) was based on bedtime stories and letters to his son and it is where the characters Rat, Badger, Mole and Toad were created. In 1930, Milne's stage version was brought to another audience in Toad of Toad Hall. Grahame died on July 6, 1932. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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