The Wind in the Willows Summary
Kenneth Grahame

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, Milne expresses his enthusiasm for Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Once on a time I discovered Samuel Butler; not the other two, but the one who wrote The Way of A... Read more

In the following essay, DeForest explains the similarities between Toad in The Wind in the Willows and Homer's Ulysses. First published in 1908, Kenneth Grahame's masterpiece, The Win... Read more

In the following essay, Poss examines pastoral themes in The Wind in the Willows. Throughout Kenneth Grahame's two collections of short stories, The Golden Age and Dream Days, his narrator w... Read more

In the following essay, Steig examines what he perceives as a veiled eroticism in The Wind in the Willows, using his own childhood reading of the book as a springboard for his discussion. One does... Read more

In the following essay, Philip provides reasons why The Wind in the Willows remains a favorite book of both children and adults. "Vitality—that is the test," wrote Kenneth Grah... Read more

In the following essay, originally published in 1969, Tucker examines the continuing fascination children have with the character of Toad in The Wind in the Willows. Although The Wind in the Willow... Read more

In the following essay, Watkins views the enduring popularity of The Wind in the Willows as a result of nostalgia for a long-ago England. On January 1st, 1983, The Wind in the Willows came out of c... Read more

In the following essay, Kuznets provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of The Wind in the Willows, focusing on mythological aspects of the children's book. Grahame's many readers ... Read more

In the following excerpt, Wall discusses Grahame as a children's author and The Wind in the Willows as a children's book. The contribution of Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) to the evolut... Read more

In the following essay, Hunt analyzes the narrative structure of The Wind in the Willows, contending that “we cannot separate structure from symbol, symbol from character, or character from lan... Read more

Imaginative Journeys- Analytical Essay The dust jacket of `The Ivory Trail' by Victor Kelleher, `Contact', a film directed by Robert Zimeck, and an extract from the `Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth G... Read more