5/20/2023 0 Comments The wind in the willows story![]() ![]() Initially rejected by publishers, the story was adapted by A. Grahame had excelled at school but could not afford to go to university so worked as a clerk at the Bank of England and wrote in his spare time. These much-loved adventures began as bedtime stories and letters for Kenneth Grahame’s son, Alistair, inspired by Grahame’s childhood at Cookham Dene by the River Thames. Kenneth Grahame’s letters to his son, Alastair, on which the story is based, are in the Bodleian Library, Oxford and Grahame is buried in Oxford’s Holywell Cemetery. Author Neil Gaiman chose to be photographed as Badger for the Story Museum’s 2014 exhibition, 26 Characters, because Badger is brave and smart and grumpy and ‘has great hair’! ![]() The Wind in the Willows charms readers of all ages with its kindly and humourous insights into friendship, courage and loyalty. ![]() As Toad’s eccentric escapades become more extreme and land him in prison, the four friends have to hatch a plan to free Toad and recapture Toad Hall from mischievous weasels and stoats. The Wind in the Willows is a gentle story of four woodland creatures – Ratty, Mole, Badger and Mr Toad – and their adventures in the English countryside. ![]()
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It was written just after finishing the first trilogy of Books of Blood, and tells a Faustian story that touches on topics such as incest, cannibalism, and self-mutilation in a frank and detailed manner. ![]() Thus, the pattern of transformation through intense encounter with the horrific so prevalent in the Books of Blood (19841985) is also a central feature in this work's thematic framework, particularly insofar as it involves Marty and Carys, the characters who form, among other things, the love element in the novel. The Damnation Game is a horror novel by English writer Clive Barker, published in 1985. Although portions of this novel are set in a prison and one of the major characters is a Howard Hughes-type billionaire recluse who controls a farflung economic empire, its focus is not upon larger social issues but rather, as is generally the case in Clive Barker's fiction, upon the struggles of individual people to achieve their own various forms of self-realization. ![]() ![]() And despite a reluctant muse - and a strange buzzing and recurring pain in his head - he must finish composing his symphony before the grand opening of the city's new opera hall. Nationally acclaimed conductor Nathaniel Tate Whitcomb is Nashville's new orchestra leader. To make matters worse, Adelicia Acklen Cheatham, mistress of Belmont Mansion and Rebekah's new employer, agrees with him. Because the conductor - determined to leave his mark on the world of classical music - bows to public opinion. 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End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Rebecca solnit history of walking![]() ![]() Along the way, she offers numerous side trails to explore introducing works by walking philosophers and the genre of the walking essay. Solnit examines the spirituality, history, literature, and political implications of walking. ![]() ![]() “Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finally in conversation together, three notes suddenly making a chord.” Wanderlust falls into the latter category, but it is the pick for EcoLit readers. A Paradise Built in Hell), fascinating if the topic interests. 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