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Golden idyll.(Books, Arts & Manners)(Wind in the Willows)(Critical essay)
WHEN Charles Scribner was shown a copy of the manuscript that would become The Wind in the Willows, he experienced a sense of profound disappointment. This wasn't at all, he felt, what American readers would want from Kenneth Grahame, the noted English writer of essays. The bucolic adventures of Ratty, Mole, and Mr. Toad were, moreover, "altogether lacking in human interest," Scribner wrote in a rejection letter to Grahame's agent.
Amazingly, Scribner seems to have been brought to his senses by no less a literary critic than Theodore Roosevelt. Grahame knew the American president had enjoyed his earlier work, so he had sent Roosevelt a typed manuscript of what ...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Hedy Weiss December 19, 1986 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England) July 11, 2009 700+ words
...Productions' adaptation of The Wind in the Willows in Jesmond Dene on August 6...July 20. Please include 'Wind in the Willows' in the subject of your email. QUESTION: Who wrote The Wind in the Willows? The first correct entry drawn...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Lerner, Michele November 20, 1998 700+ words
...If that quote from "The Wind in the Willows" brings back happy memories...home's owners loved "The Wind in the Willows" so much, particularly the...character of Toad in "The Wind in the Willows" was known for his love of...
- STUDIOS COMPETE OVER `WIND IN WILLOWS'.(PREVIEW)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) August 24, 1995 700+ words
...Film studios are scrambling to immortalize ``The Wind in the Willows,'' Kenneth Grahame's classic childhood tale...Copyright lawyers are confident that any ``Wind in the Willows'' film that goes into production before Nov. 1...
- A fresh look at childhood virtue 'Wind in the Willows' gets reissued and loses...
- Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune CHARLES McGRATH The New York Times July 14, 2009 700+ words
...look at childhood virtue 'Wind in the Willows' gets reissued and loses some...Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows"; and "A Little Princess...Of all these books "The Wind in the Willows" may be the oddest and most...
- NEW TECHNOLOGY BRINGS CHILDREN'S CLASSIC 'THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS' TO CD-ROM
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 8, 1996 700+ words
...Kenneth Grahame's classic "The Wind in the Willows." Wendy Thiessen, vice president...developed technology, "The Wind in the Willows" features colorful 3-D graphics...their children enjoy 'The Wind in the Willows' for the first time, they...
- new additions bring back old favorite 'wind in the willows'.(Daily Break)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot July 26, 2009 700+ words
...Badger, but the center of "The Wind in the Willows," Kenneth Grahame's wistful...Edinburgh March 8, 1859; "The Wind in the Willows" was published in England...attentive. "The Annotated Wind in the Willows" (W.W. Norton &...
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