HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.’A timeless and celebrated children’s classic, Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows has delighted for nearly 100 years. In the idyllic English countryside, Mole, Badger, Rat and Toad encounter adventure at every turn – whether it’s gipsy caravans, Rat’s love for the river, or Toads passion for motorcars, the loveable friends and their escapades continue to delight children and adults alike.
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Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in The Willows
THE WIND. IN THE. WILLOWS
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 The River Bank
CHAPTER 2 The Open Road
CHAPTER 3 The Wild Wood
CHAPTER 4 Mr Badger
CHAPTER 5 Dulce Domum
CHAPTER 6 Mr Toad
CHAPTER 7 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
CHAPTER 8 Toad’s Adventures
CHAPTER 9 Wayfarers All
CHAPTER 10 The Further Adventures of Toad
CHAPTER 11 ‘Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears’
CHAPTER 12 The Return of Ulysses
CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES adapted from theCollins English Dictionary
ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Life & Times
The Book and its Themes
HISTORY OF COLLINS
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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Kenneth Grahame
Title Page
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‘And beyond the Wild Wood again?’ he asked: ‘Where it’s all blue and dim, and one sees what may be hills or perhaps they mayn’t, and something like the smoke of towns, or is it only cloud-drift?’
‘Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,’ said the Rat. ‘And that’s something that doesn’t matter, either to you or me. I’ve never been there, and I’m never going, nor you either, if you’ve got any sense at all. Don’t ever refer to it again, please. Now then! Here’s our backwater at last, where we’re going to lunch.’
