Kenneth Grahame Summary

By the late 1890s Kenneth Grahame had established his reputation in England and in the United States as an essayist. In 1898, at the age of thirty-nine, he further distinguished himself by becoming th... Read more

Although it has often been pointed out that The Wind in the Willows (1908), Kenneth Grahame's most enduring work, presents an idealized portrait of rural nineteenth-century England, Edmund Little in T... Read more

In the following essay, Ray compares Grahame's The den Age to works about childhood by William Wordsworth and Charles Dickens. Although Kenneth Grahame's current reputation rests entirel... Read more