First, it is the work of a writer who had known considerable success in the 1890s as a young contemporary of Oscar Wilde, and who was also an admired contributor to the literary quarterly The Yellow Book. Chapter seven, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", is also the name of Pink Floyd's first album in 1967.Ī sentimental British favourite, The Wind in the Willows is a far more interesting book than its popular and often juvenile audience might suggest. Endlessly recycled, in print, cartoon and cinema, the ideas and images of Kenneth Grahame's masterpiece recur in the most unlikely places. The Wind in the Willows, known to many readers through theatrical adaptations such as Toad of Toad Hall, belongs to a select group of English classics whose characters (Rat, Mole, Badger and Mr Toad) and their catchphrases ("messing about in boats" "poop, poop!") require no introduction.
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