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In addition to remarkable notes on automobiles (Toad drove an Armstrong Hardcastle Special Eight), picnics, Gypsies, caravans, old English mansions, peculiar dukes, and even modern manifestations (Disney's "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride"), scholar Annie Gauger has uncovered extraordinary...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932
Other Authors: Gauger, Annie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2009]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Animals > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
River life > Fiction.
Country life > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Grahame, Kenneth, > 1859-1932. > Wind in the willows.
Fantasy fiction.
Nature stories.
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Summary:In addition to remarkable notes on automobiles (Toad drove an Armstrong Hardcastle Special Eight), picnics, Gypsies, caravans, old English mansions, peculiar dukes, and even modern manifestations (Disney's "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride"), scholar Annie Gauger has uncovered extraordinary new material on Kenneth Grahame, his troubled family life, and the origins of the story. Her preface puts Grahame's work in historical and literary context, and she provides biographies of all the illustrators. --from publisher description
Physical Description:lxxxiv, 384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-384).
ISBN:9780393057744
0393057747