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Kenneth Grahame


Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom
March 08, 1859

Died
July 06, 1932

Genre
Children's Books

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Robert Louis Stevenson ...more


Kenneth Grahame was a British writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Scottish by birth, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children. After attending St Edward's School in Oxford, his ambition to attend university was thwarted and he joined the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. Before writing The Wind in the Willows, he published three other books: Pagan Papers (1893), The Golden Age (1895), and Dream Days (1898). ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 252,316 ratings · 12,114 reviews · 680 distinct works â€� Similar authors
The Wind in the Willows
4.02 avg rating — 231,571 ratings — published 1908 — 6674 editions
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The Reluctant Dragon
3.95 avg rating — 5,559 ratings — published 1898 — 741 editions
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The Wind In The Willows
3.97 avg rating — 1,280 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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The Golden Age
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3.80 avg rating — 482 ratings — published 1895 — 1173 editions
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Dream Days
3.78 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 1898 — 844 editions
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The River Bank and Other St...
4.41 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 1908 — 5 editions
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A Wind in the Willows Chris...
4.18 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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Duck's Ditty
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Dragon Tales
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“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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