"The Willow-Wren was twittering his thin little song, hidden himself in the dark selvedge of the river bank. Though it was past ten o'clock at night, the sky still clung to and retained some lingering skirts of light from the departed day; and the sullen heats of the torrid afternoon broke up and rolled away at the dispersing touch of the cool fingers of the short midsummer night." The «Wind in the Willows» by Kenneth Grahame is a beautifully written tale and classic of children's literature. Grahame's characters are delightful and well drawn.
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Kenneth Grahame. Grahame - Wind in the Willows (Classcis of children's literature)
Table of Contents
1 THE RIVER BANK
2 THE OPEN ROAD
3 THE WILD WOOD
4 MR. BADGER
5 DULCE DOMUM
6 MR. TOAD
7 THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
8 TOAD’S ADVENTURES
9 WAYFARERS ALL
10 THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD
11 “LIKE SUMMER TEMPESTS CAME HIS TEARS”
12 THE RETURN OF ULYSSES
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Title Page
1 THE RIVER BANK
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The Mole knew well that it is quite against animal-etiquette to dwell on possible trouble ahead, or even to allude to it; so he dropped the subject.
“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?”
