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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Return to Toad Hall |
 | | Mole's tunnels, Ratty's burrow, Badger's home, the labyrinth that leads under the Wild Wood to the cellars of Toad Hall (over traces of an older and abandoned human habitation) - all these mean the story feels in touch with something ancient and mysterious. |
 | | Toad and his crew defeat the stoats and weasels, evict them from Toad Hall, and re-establish the status quo. |
 | | The character of Toad is, in many respects, modelled on Grahame's unhappy son Alistair, who committed suicide in 1920, while an undergraduate at Oxford. |
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