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The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It details 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 details short stories about them that are disconnected from the main narrative.
In October 1908, The Wind in the Willows was published as a novel for children featuring an array of anthropomorphic characters, including Rat (a water vole), Mole, Badger and Toad. [3] Toad lives in a house on the edge of the River Bank, Toad Hall. The novel was almost universally condemned by critics, but achieved very considerable sales. [4]
Toad of Toad Hall is a play written by A. A. Milne – the first of several dramatisations of Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows – with incidental music by Harold Fraser-Simson. It was originally produced by William Armstrong at the Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool, on 21 December 1929.
Grahame was born on 8 March 1859 at 32 Castle Street in Edinburgh.His parents were James Cunningham Grahame (1830–1887), advocate, and Elizabeth Ingles (1837–1864).). When Grahame was a little more than a year old, his father was appointed as sheriff-substitute in Argyllshire, and the family moved to Inveraray on Loch Fyne with Grahame, his older sister, Helen, and his older brother ...
Works based on The Wind in the Willows (2 C, 5 P) Pages in category "The Wind in the Willows" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The Wind in the Willows, a 1984–1990 British animated series by Cosgrove Hall; Wind in the Willows (1985 musical), a 1985 Broadway musical by William P. Perry; The Wind in the Willows, an American animated film by Rankin/Bass; Wind in the Willows, an animated television film from Burbank Films Australia
The Wind in the Willows is a play based on the 1908 children's novel of the same name by Kenneth Grahame, adapted for the stage by Alan Bennett, with music by Jeremy Sams. Production history [ edit ]
Frederick James Furnivall FBA (4 February 1825 – 2 July 1910) was an English philologist, best known as one of the co-creators of the New English Dictionary.He founded a number of learned societies on early English literature and made pioneering and massive editorial contributions to the subject, of which the most notable was his parallel text edition of The Canterbury Tales.