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The Wind in the Willows
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Key facts
- Author
- Kenneth Grahame
- Original title
- Willows whistle
- Illustrator
- E. H. Shepard (1931), Arthur Rackham (1940), Charles van Sandwyk (2007)
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Children's novel
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Publication date
- 8 October 1908
- Publication place
- United Kingdom
- Text
- The Wind in the Willows at Wikisource
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Full text
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
standardebooks.org →The Wind in the Willows , the story of four animals and their adventures in the idyllic English countryside, started out as bedtime stories Grahame would tell his son. He eventually started writing them down, and finally produced this much-loved childrens classic. In continuous print since 1908, The Wind in the Willows has been illustrated countless times and adapted to stage, radio, and screen. azw3 — Kindle devices and apps. Also download the Kindle cover thumbnail to see the cover in your Kindle’s library. Despite what you’ve been told, Kindle does not natively support epub. You may also be interested in our Kindle FAQ . kepub — Kobo devices and apps. You may also be interested in our Kobo FAQ . Advanced epub — An advanced format that uses the latest technology not yet fully supported by most ereaders. If you’re comfortable with technology and want to contribute directly, check out this ebook’s GitHub repository and our contributors section . You can also donate to Standard Ebooks to help fund continuing improvement of this and other ebooks.
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Wikidata facts
- Read free · Project Gutenberg
- #27805
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Kenneth Grahame
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Narrative location
- England
- Image
- The Wind in the Willows cover.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Wind in the Willows
- first line
- The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
- last line
- This was a base libel on Badger, who, though he cared little about Society, was rather fond of children; but it never failed to have its full effect.
- form of creative work
- novel
- work available at URL
- standardebooks.org/ebooks/kenneth-grahame/the-wind-in-the-willows
- characters
- Mr. Toad
- copyright status
- public domain
- intended public
- child
- publication date
- 1908-00-00
- illustrator
- Paul Bransom
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- The Wind in the Willows
- native label
- The Wind in The Willows
- time period
- modernism
- topic's main category
- Category:The Wind in the Willows
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Encyclopedic overview
The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It tells the story of Mole, Ratty and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and gets into trouble. It also contains short stories about them that are disconnected from the main narrative. The novel was based on bedtime stories that Grahame told his son Alastair.
The Wind in the Willows received negative reviews upon its initial publication, but it has since become a classic of British literature. It was listed at No. 16 in the BBC's survey The Big Read and has been adapted multiple times in different media.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Wind in the Willows” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.