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The Wind in the Willows Study Guide

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by Kenneth Grahame
About 85 pages (25,342 words)
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Critical Overview

Grahame at first had trouble placing The Wind in the Willows with a publisher. His English editor, John Lane, rejected the manuscript, as did Everybody's, the American periodical that initially solicited it. It was finally picked up in 1908 by Methuen in England. Methuen was still skeptical; so much so that he would not pay an advance on it, though Curtis Brow, Grahame's literary agent, was able to get him to agree to rising royalties. In 1909, Scribner published the book in America, but only after receiving a letter from President Theodore Roosevelt in its praise.

Critics did not receive Grahame's new work favorably. After publishing The Golden Age in 1895 and its sequel, Dream Days, in 1898, both to wide acclaim, his readers were in anticipation of another book.....

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