In the Library
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame, 1908
- Form
- Form Novel
- Difficulty
- Difficulty Accessible
- Reading time
- Reading time 4 hours
- Chapters
- Chapters 12
- Length
- Length 58k words
£1.99
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Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
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About the book
Halfway through spring cleaning, the Mole drops his brush, climbs up through the dark of his tunnel, and comes out blinking into a morning too bright to argue with. Kenneth Grahame built a whole world from that one impulse: a green, murmuring riverbank where Rat teaches him to row, Toad wrecks motor car after motor car in a fever only wealth and vanity can explain, and Badger keeps a fire burning deep in the Wild Wood for anyone brave enough to knock. Then, near the middle of the book, the story does something almost no children's story dares: Rat and Mole go looking for a lost otter cub at dawn and find themselves face to face with Pan himself, playing his pipes among the reeds, and the whole world goes hushed and holy for a page before mercifully forgetting itself. It is a book about the pull of the wide world outside your door, and the deeper, quieter pull of a hearth that keeps the door open for you.