The Making of The Wind in the Willows - Softcover

Hunt, Peter

 
9781851244799: The Making of The Wind in the Willows
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1851244794 ISBN 13: 9781851244799
Verlag: Bodleian Library, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

The Wind in the Willows has its origins in the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told to his son Alastair and then continued in letters (now held in the Bodleian Library) while he was on holiday. But the book developed into something much more sophisticated than this, as Peter Hunt shows. He identifies the colleagues and friends on whom Grahame is thought to have based the characters of Mole, Rat, Badger and Toad, and explores the literary genres of boating, caravanning and motoring books on which the author drew. He also recounts the extraordinary correspondence surrounding the book’s first publication and the influence of two determined women – Elspeth Grahame and publisher’s agent Constance Smedley – who helped turn the book into the classic for children we know and love today, when it was almost entirely intended for adults.

Generously illustrated with original drawings, fan letters (including one from President Roosevelt) and archival material, this book explores the mysteries surrounding one of the most successful works of children’s literature ever published.

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Peter Hunt is Professor Emeritus in English and Children’s Literature at Cardiff University.

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Verlag
Bodleian Library
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1851244794
ISBN 13 
9781851244799
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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