02176cam a2200373 i 4500 764692123 TxAuBib 20081008120000.0 190119s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019000913 9781643581507 1643581503 (OCoLC)1085576132 TxAuBib rda Dennison, Matthew,. The man in the willows : the life of Kenneth Grahame / Matthew Dennison. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2019. ©2019. 290 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-254.) Brown sails, blue water and highlanders -- Happy, heedless victims -- Rubs and knocks and competition -- The huge world that roars hard by -- Journeymen in this great whirling London mill -- The memory of the glades and wood -- I liked to get my meals regular and then to prop my back against a bit of rock and snooze a bit, and wake up and think of things going on -- Woman as but a drab thing -- I hardly feel I tread the earth. I only know that thou art mine -- I wish, oh how I wish, I had married an Indian half-breed -- There was a story in which a mole, a beever, a badjerand a water rat was characters -- Its much more sensible to pretend the world is fairy-land than an uninteresting dust heap -- The somewhat inadequate things that really come off -- Noble ideals, steadfast purposes -- The fellow that walks alone. "A moving biography of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children's classic The Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral life that inspired it"-- Provided by publisher. 20081008. Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932. Authors, Scottish 19th century Biography. Large type books. Biographies.