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Grahame, Kenneth

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Grahame, Kenneth (1859–1932)

Scottish-born writer. The early volumes of sketches of childhood, The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898), were followed by his masterpiece The Wind in the Willows (1908) which became a children's classic. Begun as a bedtime story for his son, it is a charming tale of life on the river bank, with its blend of naturalistic style and fantasy, and its memorable animal characters, the practical Rat, Mole, Badger, and conceited, bombastic Toad. It was dramatized by A A Milne as Toad of Toad Hall (1929) and by Alan Bennett (1990).

Grahame was born in Edinburgh, but educated in Oxford. He was secretary of the Bank of England from 1898 to 1908.



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