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	Kenneth Grahame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kenneth Grahame (March 8, 1859 – July 6, 1932) was a Scottish novelist.
		Grahame was orphaned as a child and went to live with his grandmother in England.
		His son Alastair (Grahame's only child) was born blind in one eye and was plagued by health problems throughout his short life; Alastair Grahame eventually committed suicide on a railway track in Oxford while an undergraduate at the university, two days before his 20th birthday.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kenneth_Grahame (309 words)

	Kenneth Grahame Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Kenneth Grahame was born at 30 Castle Street, Edinburgh, on 8 March 1859.
		Grahame's mother died of scarlet fever in 1864, and his father, a heavy drinker, was incapable of caring for the children, so they were sent to Cookham Dene in Berkshire to be brought up by their grandmother.
		Grahame created the character of Toad to amuse his son, but it was not until 1908 that he published "The Wind In The Willows", which had its origins in letters he had written to Alastair.
	www.applebookshop.co.uk /author/grahame.htm (363 words)

	Kenneth Grahame - Books and Biography
		Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was born in Edinburgh, as the son of a lawyer from an old Scottish family.
		Grahame was appointed as the secretary at the Bank and in 1899 he married Elspeth Thomson, whose snobbish attitudes Grahame did not share.
		Grahame did not intend to to publish the stories; they were partly educational for his son, whose excesses of behavior had similarities with Toad.
	www.readprint.com /author-42/Kenneth-Grahame (702 words)

	The Wind in the Willows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature written in 1908 by Kenneth Grahame.
		They are believed to be authorized, as Grahame was pleased with the initial sketches, but he did not live to see the completed work.
		Kenneth Williams also did a version of the book for radio.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Wind_in_the_Willows (951 words)

	Berkshire History: Biographies: Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
		Kenneth was the son of an affluent lawyer from an old Scottish family.
		Kenneth's favourite uncle, David Ingles, was the curate at nearby Cranbourne and it was in his church that the boy began to first recite his poetry.
		Kenneth became a pupil at St. Edward's School, Oxford until 1875, but was unable to enter the University and so went to work for his uncle in London.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/kgrahame.html (518 words)

	Wind in the Willows, The - Literature Guide - MSN Encarta
		Kenneth Grahame was born March 8, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Cunningham and Bessie Ingles Grahame.
		Grahame's happiness in his new surroundings was short-lived; the following year his mother died of scarlet fever several weeks after giving birth to his brother, Harold.
		Kenneth was deeply affected by the loss of his mother and the absence of his father, who frequently left the children for long periods of time.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_701712459/Wind_in_the_Willows_The.html (172 words)

	Kenneth Grahame - Puffin Authors - Puffin
		Grahame’s first book was about paganism, a belief quite fashionable with certain writers at the end of the nineteenth century.
		There was a bit of the timorous Mole in Kenneth Grahame as he was too nervous to leave the Bank, and there was some of the outdoors Rat and the adventurous Toad in him too.
		Grahame’s son, Alastair, nick-named Mouse, was the original audience for the stories that later became the book.
	www.puffin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000012973,00.html (293 words)

	SLAINTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Kenneth Grahame, the third child of affluent parents, was born in Edinburgh on 8th March 1859.
		Grahame's father was a heavy drinker, incapable of caring for his family when Grahame's mother died.
		Grahame was educated at St Edward's, Oxford but circumstances prevented him from following a university education in Oxford and he took up a position at the Bank of England, where he eventually rose to become the Secretary.
	www.slainte.org.uk /scotauth/grahadsw.htm (449 words)

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		"Kenneth Grahame and the Beast Tale." Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1976, 230 pp., DA 37:5817A.
		Grahame's epic and Arcadian themes are traced from their begin nings in his early stories to their fuller development in Wind in the Willows where Grahame has included "the gentler trappings of epic," but omitted "all aspects of the heroic life that might cause strife and pain and eventually death." A1050 RAY, LAURA KRUGMAN.
		A1054 SMITH, KATHRYN A. "Kenneth Grahame and the Singing Willows." EE 45 (December 1968):1024-35.
	www.unm.edu /~lhendr/author/author3.73.html (853 words)

	Kenneth Grahame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Kenneth Grahame was the cousin of Sir Anthony Hope, who wrote the swashbuckling Victorian masterpiece The Prisoner of Zenda.
		Grahame's own Edwardian masterpiece, The Wind in the Willows, could hardly be more distant in spirit and substance from its cousin.
		But some critics view Grahame's idealization as a form of the author's resistance to English mores, suggesting that his animals cavorting along the river represent a pagan freedom frowned upon by the Victorian standards of behavior and belief still largely in place when Grahame was writing.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/railway/age/grahame_bio.html (298 words)

	Kenneth Grahame - Biography and Works
		Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was an English author, most remembered for his children's classic The Wind in the Willows(1908).
		Grahame was born on March 8, 1859, in Edinburgh as the son of a lawyer from an old Scottish family.
		Grahame wrote parts of The Wind in the Willows originally in the form of letters to his young son Alistair.
	www.online-literature.com /grahame (378 words)

	The Wind in the Willows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Kenneth Grahame was born Mar. 8, 1859 and died July 6, 1932.
		He wrote the book for his only son, Alastair, while Kenneth was serving as a secretary of the Bank of England.
		The major theme of the story is the struggle between the noisy, common way of life and the quiet and genteel.
	www.geocities.com /willowind_dals/willows.html (766 words)

	eBay - kenneth grahame, Children's Books, Antiquarian Collectible items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1983)
		KENNETH GRAHAME THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS D/J 1955
		Kenneth Grahame "Wind in the Willows" 1933 1st Ed.
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	Kenneth Grahame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Kenneth Grahame was born in Edimburgh in 1859.
		But when his mother died of scarlet fever, all her children were sent to live with their maternal grandmother in the village of Cookham Dene, the chief setting of The Wind in the Willows.
		The Wind in the Willows (1908), which established Grahame's international reputation as a writer of children's books and has deeply influenced fantasy literature, is his best-known book.
	www.ricochet-jeunes.org /eng/biblio/author/grahame.html (229 words)

	Anti Essays : Free Essays on The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Essay
		Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows is a satirical reflection of the English social structure of the late nineteenth century, during a time of rapid industrialization throughout Europe.
		Grahame attempts to legitimize the extreme disparities of wealth and social position, however, he provides the reader with a main character that seems to contradict or counteract this attempt.
		However, when Grahame presents these qualities to the reader, it is inconsistent with his trying to justify the extreme separation and inequality of classes.
	www.antiessays.com /essay.php?eid=588 (1204 words)

	Amazon.com: The Wind in the Willows: Books: Kenneth Grahame,Michael Hague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Not the least of Graham's parables is that 'the bigger they are, the harder they fall' because Toad is as egotistical and as self-important as they come until being thrown in jail for 'borrowing' a car.
		As for Grahame's choice of phrase (...the "remotest dungeon of the best-guarded keep of the stoutest castle in all the length and breadth of Merry England"...) it's almost as poetically attention-grabbing as Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder series.
		The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, was originally a series of bedtime stories for Grahame's son.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805002138?v=glance (2225 words)

	Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows -- Al Young's Family Reading List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		It is a sheer joy to read it aloud to a child, in part, perhaps, because the tales were invented by Kenneth Grahame as bedtime stories for his son (lucky child).
		Grahame's comprehension of human nature coupled with his clever imagination of animal life make for magical insights into both.
		The fine art prints presented here as companions to Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows are not associated with any particular edition of his work, nor are they affiliated in any way with organizations associated with the author or his work.
	www.alyoung.com /grahame01.htm (648 words)

	LitWeb.net
		When his mother died of scarlet fever, the children were sent to live with their maternal grandmother in the village of Cookham Dene, the chief setting of The Wind in the Willows.
		Grahame was educated at St. Edward's School, Oxford, and in 1879 he entered the Bank Of England.
		While pursuing his career at the bank, Grahame began composing light non-fiction pieces as a pastime He contributed articles to such journals as the St.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/grahame_kenneth.html (625 words)

	Kenneth Grahame Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Grahame worked at the Bank of England until 1908.
		By Kenneth Grahame, Frontis illustration by Graham Robertson & published by Methuen.
		By Kenneth Grahame, illustration by EH Shepard & published by Methuen.
	www.booksillustrated.com /Kenneth_Grahame1.htm (162 words)

	The Wind in the Willows
		Plessix does at least follow Grahame's basic plot for the most part, but he takes liberties with the characters and other details that are, in my opinion, unnecessary and often distressing.
		Here's Grahame's Badger in the same scene: "'This is not the sort of night for small animals to be out," he said paternally.
		The dialogue, in most cases, is word-for-word Grahame's own, and the cartoonists responsible for rendering Rat, Mole, Badger and Toad have done marvelous work.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_grahame_windinthewillows_omni2004.html (2610 words)

	Kenneth Grahame
		The work established Grahame's international reputation as a writer of children's books and has deeply influenced fantasy literature.
		They converse and behave like humans, but they all have typical animal habits, and some of the animals are eaten for breakfast by Mole, Rat, or Badger.
		Grahame also published essays, stories, and collections of sketches.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.48 (833 words)

	Kenneth Grahame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Born on March 8, 1859, Kenneth Grahame lived his childhood in the Highlands of Scotland and in England.
		The children were raised by their grandmother near the Thames, in Cookham Dene, which provides the backdrop for his most memorable work, Wind in the Willows.
		The family's misfortunes meant that Grahame wasn't able to attend University, but his uncle found him a position at the Bank of England.
	www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org /brthpage/03mar/3-8grahame.html (191 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Wind in the Willows: Gift Book: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Grahame, who wrote this as a series of bedtime stories for his son in 1908.
		All was a-shake and a-shiver, glints and gleams and sparkles, rustle and swirl, chatter and bubble.
		Grahame writes this exuberant, humorous fantasy, about the adventures of four close friends, all animals, who live in the English countryside, the Wild Wood, to be exact.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1405208422 (901 words)

	Kenneth Grahame - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Kenneth Grahame - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		In 1879 he joined the staff of the Bank of England, becoming secretary...
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	Kenneth Grahame - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Kenneth Grahame - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK home
		Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was born in Edinburgh but spent most of his childhood with relatives in Berkshire as his mother had died and his father, unable to cope with the children, had gone to live in France.
		Grahame’s wonderful imagination and quiet humour continue to touch children today.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000012973,00.html (305 words)

	[minstrels] Mr Toad -- Kenneth Grahame
		Grahame creates a world that's utterly convincing, and utterly true.
		Orphaned at an early age, Grahame went to live with his grandmother in England and attended St. Edward's School, Oxford.
		Money was lacking for him to go to the university; hence his family guided him into a career at the Bank of England, with which he stayed until ill health compelled him to retire in 1907.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/799.html (464 words)

	The Life of Kenneth Grahame quiz -- free game
		Where was Grahame employed from 1879 until his retirement in 1907?
		Grahame wrote 'The Wind in the Willows' for a person he nicknamed 'Mouse'.
		Grahame wrote three sequels to 'The Wind in the Willows'.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=57984 (124 words)

	The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - Penguin Classics
		When Kenneth Grahame first entertained his son with letters about a petulant character named Toad, he had no way of knowing that his creation—together with his friends Mole, Rat, and Badger—would delight children for nearly 100 years.
		Here they are once more, pursuing adventure in gypsy caravans, stolen sportscars, and prison, but always returning to their beloved Wildwood.
		And although Grahame’s characters are unmistakably animals, they remain endearingly human in their eccentricity, folly, and friendship.
	us.penguinclassics.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,10_9780143039099,00.html (134 words)

	Kenneth Grahame: HarperCollins Publishers Authors and Illustrators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
		After the death of his mother and abandonment by his father, Grahame went to live with his grandmother in Berkshire, near the River Thames.
		The Wind in the Willows was originally written in parts and given in letter to his son.
	www.harpercollinschildrens.com /HarperChildrens/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=12154 (77 words)

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