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Grahame, K: Wind in the Willows

Grahame, K: Wind in the Willows


en Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 1908

Observăm în The Wind in the Willows de Kenneth Grahame o atmosferă similară cu cea din alte ediții clasice precum The Wind in the Willows - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, dar cu o temă actuală și perenă: echilibrul fragil între dorința de aventură și confortul căminului. Această operă, publicată inițial în 1908, rămâne un punct de referință în literatura pentru copii, reușind să îmbine misticismul naturii cu o moralitate blândă. Descoperim aici povestea a patru prieteni necuvântători — Mole, Ratty, Badger și excentricul Toad — ale căror peripeții pe malul râului sau în Codrul Sălbatic oglindesc trăsături umanissime. Structura narativă alternează între momente de reflecție pastorală, aproape contemplative, și secvențe de acțiune rapidă, cum sunt escapadele motorizate ale nesăbuitului Toad. Remarcăm cum autorul, pornind de la poveștile spuse fiului său, a reușit să creeze un univers unde „a te da cu barca” devine o filozofie de viață. Spre deosebire de The Reluctant Dragon, unde Kenneth Grahame explorează subminarea stereotipurilor despre monștri, aici el se concentrează pe loialitate și pe frumusețea peisajului englezesc. Această ediție Wordsworth Classics păstrează farmecul textului original, oferind o experiență de lectură care curge natural, precum apele Tamisei care l-au inspirat pe autor după retragerea sa din viața publică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781774416914
ISBN-10: 1774416913
Pagini: 164
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Brian Westland

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte părinților care doresc să introducă copiii de peste 8 ani în lumea literaturii clasice printr-o poveste caldă despre prietenie și natură. Cititorul câștigă nu doar o aventură captivantă, ci și o lecție subtilă despre consecințele iresponsabilității și valoarea comunității. Este alegerea ideală pentru lectura de seară, oferind un ritm liniștitor și un vocabular bogat care stimulează imaginația.

Despre autor

Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) a fost un scriitor scoțian a cărui operă a definit standardele literaturii antropomorfice moderne. Deși a lucrat ca secretar la Banca Angliei, adevărata sa pasiune a fost natura, temă care domină capodopera sa, The Wind in the Willows. Experiențele sale din copilărie de pe malul râului Tamisa și dorința de a-și alina fiul prin povești fantastice au pus bazele unor personaje iconice. Pe lângă aventurile lui Toad și Mole, el este cunoscut și pentru The Reluctant Dragon, ambele lucrări fiind adaptate ulterior de studiouri celebre precum Disney.

Descriere scurtă

The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames Valley. In 1908, Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Berkshire, where he had lived as a child, and spent his time by the River Thames doing much as the animal characters in his book do - as the book says, "simply messing about in boats" - and expanding the bedtime stories he had earlier told his son Alastair into a manuscript for the book. The novel was in its 31st printing when playwright A. A. Milne adapted part of it for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. Almost a century later, it was adapted again for the stage as a musical by Julian Fellowes. In 2003, The Wind in the Willows was listed at number 16 in the BBC's survey The Big Read. Kenneth Grahame was born on 8 March 1859 in Edinburgh. When he was 5, his mother died from puerperal fever, and his father, who had a drinking problem, gave the care of his four children over to their grandmother, who lived in Cookham Dean in Berkshire. There they lived in a spacious but dilapidated home, "The Mount", in extensive grounds by the River Thames, and were introduced to the riverside and boating by their uncle, David Ingles, curate at Cookham Dean church.[2] At Christmas 1865 the chimney of the house collapsed and the children moved to Fern Hill Cottage in Cranbourne, Berkshire. In 1866, their father tried to overcome his drinking problem and took the children back to live with him in Argyll, Scotland, but after a year they returned to their grandmother's house in Cranbourne, where Kenneth lived until he entered St Edward's School, Oxford in 1868.[3] During his early years at St. Edwards the boys had freedom to explore the old city with its quaint shops, historic buildings, and cobbled streets, St Giles' Fair, the idyllic upper reaches of the River Thames, and the nearby countryside.[4] Grahame married Elspeth Thomson in 1899; they had only one child, a boy named Alastair (whose nickname was "Mouse") born blind in one eye and plagued by health problems throughout his life.[5] When Alastair was about four years old, Grahame would tell him bedtime stories, some of which were about a toad, and when he holidayed alone he would write further tales of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger in letters to Alastair.[3] In 1908 Grahame took early retirement from his job at the Bank of England and moved with his wife and son to an old farmhouse in Blewbury, where he used the bedtime stories he had told Alastair as a basis for the manuscript of The Wind in the Willows. A number of publishers rejected the manuscript. It was published in the UK by Methuen and Co., and later in the US by Scribner. The critics, who were hoping for a third volume in the style of Graham's earlier works; The Golden Age and Dream Days, generally gave negative reviews.[3] The public loved it, however, and within a few years it sold in such numbers that many reprints were required. In 1909, then sitting US President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Grahame to tell him that he had "read it and reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends

Notă biografică

Kenneth Grahame was a British writer 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).

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‘The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!’Ratty teaches Mole how to be a true riverbanker. The two friends spend their days having picnics and rowing boats.