Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908) stands at once as an emblem of Edwardian pastoral idyll and a quietly subversive meditation on the tensions between adventure and domesticity, individual freedom and social responsibility. At its heart lie four anthropomorphic protagonists—Mole, Rat, Badger, and the irrepressible Mr. Toad—whose adventures along the Thames and beyond map both the contours of the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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