by Kenneth Grahame · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853261220
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«The Wind in the Willows» is the classic children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, published by Wordsworth Editions in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Mole leaves his housework to go boating with Ratty and discovers a new world by the river and the Wild Wood. With Badger and the eccentric Toad, always with a new craze for fast travel, the four friends have madcap adventures in caravans, trains, barges and automobiles that end in battle.
The Wind in the Willows was originally published in 1908; this 1993 edition is complete and belongs to the Wordsworth Children's Classics collection.
Recommended for readers aged 8 to 12, within classic children's and young adult literature.
Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Born in Scotland, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children. After attending St Edward's School in Oxford, his ambition to attend university was thwarted and he joined the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. Before writing The Wind in the Willows, he published three other books: Pagan Papers (1893), The Golden Age (1895), and Dream Days (1898).
