The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, Folio Society, 1995 (6th pr., 2002)

Description: Another beautiful book from the Folio Society! "Bound ... in full moire taffeta silk blocked with a design by the artist". From an appreciation in the Slightly Foxed Quarterly (https://foxedquarterly.com/sue-gee-kenneth-grahame-wind-in-the-willows-literary-review/): ... I have loved and revisited Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece since I was 8 when, in a school test, I read aloud the scene in which Toad, imprisoned for stealing a motor car, is brought hot buttered toast by the gaoler’s daughter. What bliss. To this day, I often sort the laundry murmuring the words spoken by a passing fox to the furious Toad who, disguised as a washerwoman in order to escape from prison, is forced to keep up the deception by actually doing the work. ‘Half a pair of socks and a pillowcase missing this week,’ remarks the fox. ‘Mind it doesn’t occur again.’ As for ‘More speeches by Toad’, the line which appears several times in the programme Toad himself devises to celebrate his triumphant return: on how many occasions do these words come to mind as someone, quite possibly a man, Goes On? ...‘When characters have been created as solidly as those of Rat, Mole, Toad and Badger, they speak ever after in their own voices,’ writes Milne, ‘and the dramatist has merely to listen and record.’ FLAG4/0vb9

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