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02442aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 AE44D21840A611E9BD22A04597128E48 003 SILO 005 20190307010023 008 190130t20192019nyuaf b 001 0beng d 020 $a 1643130072 020 $a 9781643130071 035 $a (OCoLC)1083642354 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $e rda $c T7B $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d QQ3 $d YDX $d BDX $d GK8 $d IGA $d OCLCF $d OJ4 $d LEB $d FMA $d OCLCO $d UAP $d DPB $d UAB $d FDB $d EYM $d FMB $d PCX $d JQJ $d CZA $d IDQ $d JY9 $d IOU $d SILO 050 14 $a PR4727 $b .D46 2019 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Dennison, Matthew, $e author. 245 14 $a The man in the willows : $b the life of Kenneth Grahame / $c Matthew Dennison. 246 30 $a Life of Kenneth Grahame 250 $a First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2019. 300 $a 227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-219) and index. 520 $a "During his regular days in London, Kenneth Grahame sat behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the Bank of England; on weekends he retired to the house in the country that he shared with his fanciful wife, Elspeth, and their fragile son, Alistair, and took lengthy walks along the Thames in Berkshire, "tempted by the treasures of hedge and ditch; the rapt surprise of the first lords-and-ladies, the rustle of a field-mouse, the splash of a frog." The result of these pastoral wanderings was his masterful creation of The Wind in the Willows, the enduring classic of children's literature; a cautionary tale for adult readers; a warning of the fragility of the English countryside; and an expression of fear at threatened social changes that, in the aftermath of the World War I, became a reality. Like its remarkable author, the book balances maverick tendencies with conservatism. Kenneth Grahame was an Edwardian pantheist whose work has a timeless appeal, an escapist whose withdrawal from reality took the form of time travel into his own past" -- goodreads. 600 10 $a Grahame, Kenneth, $d 1859-1932. 650 0 $a Authors, English $y 20th century $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722061043.0 952 $l VFPB334 $d 20190627011400.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190307010118.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AE44D21840A611E9BD22A04597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search