TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dennison,Matthew
TI  - The man in the willows: the life of Kenneth Grahame 
SN  - 9781643130071
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pegasus Books
KW  - Grahame, Kenneth,
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-219) and index
N2  - "During his regular days in London, Kenneth Grahame sat behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the Bank of England; on weekends he retired to the house in the country that he shared with his fanciful wife, Elspeth, and their fragile son, Alistair, and took lengthy walks along the Thames in Berkshire, "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 his masterful creation of The Wind in the Willows, the 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 a reality. Like its remarkable author, the book balances maverick tendencies with conservatism. Kenneth Grahame 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" -- goodreads
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