![]() ![]() ![]() THE Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. In 2003, The Wind in the Willows was listed at number 16 in the BBC’s survey The Big Read. Almost a century later, it was adapted again for the stage as a musical by Julian Fellowes. Milne adapted part of it for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. ![]() The novel was in its 31st printing when playwright A. He moved back to Berkshire, where he had lived as a child, and spent his time by the River Thames doing much as the animal characters in his book do – as the book says, “simply messing about in boats” – and expanding the bedtime stories he had earlier told his son Alastair into a manuscript for the book. In 1908, Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. The pdf is in a user friendly easily readable font, page numbers and chapter index. This edition of The Wind in the Willows is published by Free Kids Books, it is a non-illustrated version (excluding the cover) for smaller file size. 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. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The Wind in the Willows is a children’s novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. ![]()
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