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PublisherPegasus Books
ISBN-101643130072
ISBN-139781643130071
eBay Product ID (ePID)10038487101
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Book TitleMan in the Willows : the Life of Kenneth Grahame
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
TopicChildren's & Young Adult Literature, General, Literary, Historical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorMatthew Dennison
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight14.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2018-276650
ReviewsA revealing biography, Dennison brings Potter to life with empathy and understanding, with perception of thought, elegance of prose and love of subject., An excellent short biography. The book is concise, brisk, and consistently interesting, offering just enough detail for most readers., Matthew Dennison's short, gripping and consistently surprising biography of Kenneth Grahame ably explains how a stuffy bank clerk produced arguably the greatest children's book ever written, The Wind in the Willows. Grahame's was a life of tragedy from its beginning and a consequent retreat into private fantasy proved both his imaginative salvation and, thanks to his unfortunate son, 'Mouse,' the greatest loss of all., Dennison's account is sympathetic but honest, psychologically acute and insightful. It is, withal, a sad story but one that Dennison tells extremely well to his and Grahame's credit., An affecting portrait of the writer. As we read in The Man in the Willows, a number of mysteries attend the life and work of Kenneth and Elspeth Grahame., This sympathetic study will attract biography lovers and, of course, fans of Grahame's enduring classic., Matthew Dennison's short, gripping and consistently surprising biography of Kenneth Grahame ably explains how a stuffy bank clerk produced arguably the greatest children's book ever written, The Wind in the Willows . Grahame's was a life of tragedy from its beginning and a consequent retreat into private fantasy proved both his imaginative salvation and, thanks to his unfortunate son, 'Mouse,' the greatest loss of all., Deftly distilling information from his research, Dennison tells Grahame's story with profound sympathy but stringent honesty. In doing so, he portrays a man who, though acquainted with sorrow, nevertheless brought joy to millions through his imagination, his love of nature and his reverence for pastoral life.
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Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal823.8 B
SynopsisA moving biography of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children's classic The Wind in the Willows , and of the vision of English pastoral life that inspired it. 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., 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., A moving biography of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children's classic The Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral life that inspired it.
LC Classification NumberPR4727.D46 2019b
