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    The Annotated Wind in the Willows, for Adults and Sensible Children (or, possibly, Children and Sensible Adults)
    The Annotated Wind in the Willows, for Adults and Sensible Children (or, possibly, Children and Sensible Adults)
    The Annotated Wind in the Willows, for Adults and Sensible Children (or, possibly, Children and Sensible Adults)
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    The Annotated Wind in the Willows, for Adults and Sensible Children (or, possibly, Children and Sensible Adults)

    By GMW Wemyss

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    This annotated edition of a well-loved classic, with almost 350 footnotes, tracks its literary allusions, influences, and legacies; identifies the river of River Bank and the canal into which Toad is thrown, and every plant and animal in the text; offers insight into Grahame's life and losses (including the suicide of his son to whom these tales were first told); and furnishes to a new generation the references and assumptions that any Edwardian parent and child should have known without thinking. Annotated lovingly but critically by two historians - one American, one British - who grew up with the source text, this volume contextualises, and explains with humour and insight, a classic of the genre - and why it is a classic. From railways to classism to nursery suppers, the editors place the text before a new generation with the knowledge that its first audience should have had - and what we have learnt since.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBapton Books
    Release dateJul 5, 2013
    ISBN9781301236923
    The Annotated Wind in the Willows, for Adults and Sensible Children (or, possibly, Children and Sensible Adults)
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    GMW Wemyss

    Parliamentary historian, chronicler of Titanic’s sinking and Churchill’s ascent, annotator of Kipling and of Kenneth Grahame: GMW Wemyss lives and writes, wisely pseudonymously, in Wilts. Having, by invoking the protective colouration of tweeds, cricket (he was a dry bob at school), and country matters, somehow evaded immersion in Mercury whilst up at University, he survived to become the West Country’s beloved essayist; author or co-author of histories of the Narvik Debate, the fall of Chamberlain and the rise of Churchill, of 1937 – that year of portent – and of the UK and US enquiries into the sinking of Titanic; and co-editor and co-annotator of Kipling’s Mowgli stories and Kenneth Grahame.

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