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the wind in the willows
p begun as a series of stories told by kenneth grahame to his six year old son the wind in the willows has become one of the most beloved works of children s literature ever written . it has been illustrated famously by e.h. shepard and arthur rackham and parts of it were dramatized by a.a. milne as toad of toad hall . a century after its initial publication it still enchants . much in grahame s novel the sensitivity of mole the mania of toad the domesticity of rat permeates our imaginative lives as children and adults . and grahame s burnished prose still dazzles . now comes an annotated edition of the wind in the willows by a leading literary scholar that instructs the reader in a larger appreciation of the novel s charms and serene narrative magic . p in an introduction aimed at a general audience seth lerer tells us everything that we as adults need to know about the author and his work . he vividly captures grahame s world and the circumstances under which the wind in the willows came into being . in his running commentary on the novel lerer offers complete annotations to the language contexts allusions and larger texture of grahame s prose . anyone who has read and loved the wind in the willows will want to own and cherish this beautiful gift edition . those coming to the novel for the first time or returning to it with their own children will not find a better more sensitive guide than seth lerer .