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001			on1083642354
003			OCoLC
005			20190225091253.0
008			190130s2019 nyuaf b 001 0beng d
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019			_a1041893929
020			_a9781643130071 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1643130072 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1083642354 _z(OCoLC)1041893929
092			_aGrahame, K. _bD411
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aDennison, Matthew, _eauthor. _9251625
245	1	4	_aThe man in the willows : _bthe life of Kenneth Grahame / _cMatthew Dennison.
250			_aFirst Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPegasus Books, _c2019.
300			_a227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color) ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 197-219) and index.
520			_a"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.
600	1	0	_aGrahame, Kenneth, _d1859-1932. _974507
650		0	_aAuthors, English _y20th century _vBiography. _954895
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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