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During the week Kenneth Grahame sat behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the Bank of England; on the weekend he retired to the house in the country he shared with his fanciful wife Elspeth and fragile son Alistair, and took lengthy walks along the Thamese, "tempted . . . [by] the treasures of hedge and ditch; the rapt surprise of the first lords-and-ladies, the rustle of a field-mouse, the splash of a frog." The result of these pastoral wanderings was The Wind in the Willows: an enduring classic of children's literature; a cautionary tale for adult readers; a warning of the fragility of the English countryside; and an expression of fear at threatened social changes that, in the aftermath of the World War I, became reality. Graham was an Edwardian pantheist whose work has a timeless appeal, an escapist whose withdrawal from reality took the form of time travel into his own past.
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Matthew Dennison is the author of The Twelve Caesars: The Dramatic Lives of the Emperors of Rome and Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter.
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- PublisherHead of Zeus
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1786697742
- ISBN 13 9781786697745
- BindingPaperback
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