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The Wind in the Willows

姜鑫钰

周欢欢

石清清

康丽洁

Ⅰ

.Introduction

The writer of this novel---Kenneth Grahame , a British man who was born on 8

March 1859 in Edinburgh Scotland and died on 6 July 1932 in Pangboarne Berkshire,

most famous for The

Wind in the Willows in ’s one of the classic of children’s

literatures. In his early childhood, his father began to drink heavily after his mother

died and then he moved with his younger sister to live with his grandmother whose

home

is

on

the

barks

of

the

River

Thames

in

the

Berkshire

village

of

Cookham

in

Southern England. He married Elspeth Thomson in 1899,but the marriage was not a

happy

one.

They

had

only

one

child,

a

boy

named

Alastair

whose

nickname

was

“Mouse”

born

in

blind

in

one

eyes

and

pl

agued

by

health

problems

throughout

his

short life. He wrote this book and told these stories to his son before sleeping. He was

rewarded by these stories and soon , he published this book in choose this

book because it not only bring some life stories of these animals for us but friendship

and

brotherliness

between

them.

We

also

can

feel

a

father’s

love

for

his

son

at

the

same time. We can learn how to get along well with friends.

Ⅱ

.Summary of the Book

This

novel

is

divided

into

twelve

parts----

?

.The

river

bank

?

.The

open

road

.

?

.Mr.

badger

?

.Dulce

Domum

?

.Mr.

toad

?

.The

piper

at

the

gates

of

dawn

?

< br>.

T

oad’

s adventures

?

.Wayfarers all

?

.The further

?

.Adventures of toad

?

.Like

summery tempests game his tear’s

?

.The return of Ulysses.

This story is so warm and sweet that people will be attracted by it. According to

it,

we

can

see

that

the

writer

is

fond

of

the

scenery

in

his

hometown.

This

novel

describes

a

postcard-pretty

mountain

village

in

Britain,

just

like

the

wind

in

the

willows, so graceful and cool. The writer shows us the fairy tale world which animals

live with the change of seasons. The novel reveals the friendship and warm feelings in