Bibliograph

The man in the willows, the life of Kenneth Grahame, Matthew Dennison

Type

Label

The man in the willows, the life of Kenneth Grahame, Matthew Dennison

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-254)

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The man in the willows

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1085576132

Responsibility statement

Matthew Dennison

Sub title

the life of Kenneth Grahame

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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

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