Eternal Boy

During the week Kenneth Grahame sat behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the Bank of England; on the weekend he retired to the house in the country he shared with his fanciful wife Elspeth and fragile son Alistair, and took lengthy walks along the Thames, "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 The Wind in the Willows : an enduring click 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 reality. Graham 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.

• Author  -  Matthew Dennison
• Series / Key Character  -  n/a
• Illustrated  -  Yes
• Age -  Adult
• ISBN  -  9781786697745
• Publisher  -  Head of Zeus
• Date  -  2019
• Format  -  Paperback
• Weight  -  235g
• Size  -  20 x 13 cm
  
• Pages  -  288
• RRP  -  £8.99

Awards:  None