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Alastair was their only child. He was born the year after their marriage and died at age 20 in an accident. The Wind in the Willows was published in1908, around the same time that Grahame retired from the bank. He died at Pangbourne, Berkshire, on July 6, 1932. (1859–1932). When Kenneth Grahame’s small son Alastair went on a vacation, he ...
But before Alastair, before Grahame was even married, he wrote these enchanting memoirs of childhood – The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898). "The Golden Age" and "Dream Days" are Kenneth Grahame's affectionate reminiscences of his idyllic childhood in 1860s Berkshire, including the classic story "The Reluctant Dragon".
When Alastair was about four years old, Kenneth Grahame would tell “Mouse” (his nickname for Alastair) bedtime stories about a toad. And whenever the two were apart, his father would write more tales about Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger in letters to his young son Alastair. Kenneth Grahame’s own childhood at this age however, was far from rosy.
19 de dic. de 2018 · Kenneth Grahame wrote the tales of Toad, Mole and Ratty in a series of letters to his young son Alastair. Image: PA handout/E.H. Shepard Kenneth Grahame wrote the book that is seen as the idyll of ...
19 de jul. de 2009 · Grahame, to be played by Fantastic Four star Ioan Gruffudd, was a 41-year-old virgin when he met Elspeth Thompson, a 36-year-old hypochondriac spinster whose father had invented the pneumatic tyre ...
Kenneth gave thirty years to the Bank of London, but his heart remained on the banks of the Thames. He quietly passed away in Berkshire near the Thames at age 73. Kenneth Grahame didn’t pull The Wind in the Willows from a void. He plied his craft through 30s. He took ten years off to deal with difficulties at home.
Grahame, Kenneth (1944), Grahame, Elspeth (ed.), First Whisper of The Wind in the Willows, Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott tells how the stories evolved from bedtime stories (and letters, in his absence) for his son Alastair, then known as "Mouse". Hunt, Peter (1994). The Wind in the Willows: A Fragmented Arcadia. New York: Twayne ...
