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Table of Contents FROM THE PAGES OF THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Believe me my - photo 1

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FROM THE PAGES OF THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

Believe me, my young friend, there is nothingabsolutely nothinghalf so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. (p. 10)

Packing the basket was not quite such pleasant work as unpacking the basket. It never is. (p. 15 )

This day was only the first of many similar ones for the emancipated Mole, each of them longer and fuller of interest as the ripening summer moved onward. He learnt to swim and to row, and entered into the joy of running water; and with his ear to the reed-stems he caught, at intervals, something of what the wind went whispering so constantly among them. (p. 18)

The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here todayin next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumpedalways somebody elses horizon! (p. 28)

Who ever heard of a door-mat telling any one anything? They simply dont do it. They are not that sort at all. Door-mats know their place. (p. 40)

It was the talk of the burrows. (p. 49)

Villagers all, this frosty tide,

Let your doors swing open wide,

Though wind may follow, and snow beside,

Yet draw us in by your fire to bide;

Joy shall be yours in the morning! (p. 64)

Its for your own good, Toady, you know. (p. 74)

Rouse thee, old loon, and take over from us this vile Toad, a criminal of deepest guilt and matchless artfulness and resource. Watch and ward him with all thy skill; and mark thee well, grey-beard, should aught untoward befall, thy old head shall answer for hisand a murrain on both of them! (p. 81)

I feel just as you do, Mole; simply dead tired, though not body-tired.

Its lucky weve got the stream with us, to take us home. Isnt it jolly to feel the sun again, soaking into ones bones! And hark to the wind playing in the reeds! (p. 91 )

The clever men at Oxford

Know all that there is to be knowed.

But they none of them know one half as much

As intelligent Mr. Toad! (p. 130)

Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged more properly to the category of what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of it-in-time-instead-of ten-minutes-afterwards. Those are always the best and raciest adventures; and why should they not be truly ours, as much as the somewhat inadequate things that really come off? (p. 151 )

Bang! go the drums!

The trumpeters are tooting and the soldiers are saluting,

And the cannon they are shooting and the motor-cars are hooting,

As theHerocomes!

ShoutHoo-ray!

And let each one of the crowd try and shout it very loud,

In honour of an animal of whom youre justly proud,

For its Toadsgreatday! (p. 162)

KENNETH GRAHAME Born in Edinburgh Scotland on March 8 1859 Kenneth Grahame - photo 2

KENNETH GRAHAME

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 8, 1859, Kenneth Grahame was five years old when his mother died of scarlet fever following the birth of her fourth child. Kenneths despondent father put his children in the care of their maternal grandmother and, except for a brief interlude, did not see or communicate with them again. A relatively isolated child, Kenneth developed a passion for the landscape around his grandmothers home in Cookham Dene, Berkshire. That lush area along the Thames stayed in his imagination and was later to play a large part in his writings; in time he would live there with his wife and son.

Grahame attended boarding school at St. Edwards in Oxford, where he excelled at sports and his studies. These accomplishments were muted by the death of his brother William and by his familys refusal to allow him to study at Oxford University. Instead Grahame was urged to move to London, where in 1879 he took a position as a gentleman clerk at the Bank of London. Rather than mourn his lost opportunities, he worked diligently and spent his considerable free time playing sports and cultivating literary interests. Friendship with acclaimed academic F. J. Furnivall widened his circle of friends, and Furnivall advised the young man as he began writing short essays and poems.

After publishing his first works under a pseudonym in the National Observer, Grahame combined some of his light prose pieces and published them under his own name as Pagan Papers in 1893. Modest success followed, along with more publications: The Golden Age (1895), The Headswoman (1898), and Dream Days (1898). Relatively conservative politically, Grahame nevertheless published in the same journal as Oscar Wilde and formed friendships with writers of different opinions and backgrounds. His double life as bank worker and writer continued through the end of the century. In 1899 Grahame married Elspeth Thomson; they had a child, a partially blind son named Alastair, a year later.

Royalties from the sale of his books allowed Grahame to resign from the bank, and the family settled in Cookham Dene, where Grahame had spent his childhood. Although he wrote little in this period, Grahame told his son stories that gave him the idea for his great novel The Wind in the Willows. The book was published in 1908, and, after a slow beginning, proved immensely popular; it has remained so down to the present day. Grahame wrote little after the books release, withdrawing further into solitude in the countryside. His quiet way of life was shattered in 1920 by his sons death. To cope with the loss, Grahame and Elspeth spent years traveling through Europe before returning to England in 1924. Kenneth Grahame died in Pangbourne, Berkshire, on July 6, 1932, and is buried in Holywell Churchyard in Oxford.

THE WORLD OF KENNETH GRAHAME AND THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

1859	Kenneth Grahame is born on March 8 to Bessie Ingles Grahame and James Cunningham Grahame; the upper-middleclass family lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Darwins The Origin of Species and Charles Dickenss A Tale of Two Cities are published.
1860	James moves his wife and three young children to Argyllshire, where he has taken the position of sheriff. The family first lives in the port town of Loch Fyne, then moves to another port town, Inveraray.
1864	Bessie contracts scarlet fever after giving birth to her fourth child; Kenneth also comes down with the illness. When Bessie dies, James sends the children to live with their wealthy maternal grandmother in England, at her home in Cookham Dene, along the Thames in Berkshire; later Kenneth will use the setting in The Wind and the Willows.
1865	Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland is published.
1866	Financial concerns cause Kenneths grandmother to move to a smaller house in Cranbourne. The children live with James in Inveraray for a little less than a year, the last time they will live with their father.
1868	Kenneth and his brother William are sent to the private school St. Edwards, in Oxford, where Kenneth will spend the next seven years; he is an excellent student and gifted at sports.
1871-	George Eliots Middlemarch is published.
1872
1876	Although Grahame would prefer to go on to college at Oxford University, his family decides he should work for his uncle while trying to secure a position at the Bank of England in London. Grahame is not happy about the move but pursues his work with dedication.

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