The man in the willows The life of Kenneth Grahame
Book - 2019
"A moving biography of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children's classic The Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral life that inspired it"--
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- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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Thorndike, Maine :
Center Point Large Print
2019.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 290 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-254).
- ISBN
- 9781643581507
- Brown sails, blue water and highlanders
- Happy, heedless victims
- Rubs and knocks and competition
- The huge world that roars hard by
- Journeymen in this great whirling London mill
- The memory of the glades and wood
- I liked to get my meals regular and then to prop my back against a bit of rock and snooze a bit, and wake up and think of things going on
- Woman as but a drab thing
- I hardly feel I tread the earth. I only know that thou art mine
- I wish, oh how I wish, I had married an Indian half-breed
- There was a story in which a mole, a beever, a badjerand a water rat was characters
- Its much more sensible to pretend the world is fairy-land than an uninteresting dust heap
- The somewhat inadequate things that really come off
- Noble ideals, steadfast purposes
- The fellow that walks alone.