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Kenneth Grahame
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Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon (1898). Grayh was born on 8 March 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland but in early childhood, after his mother died and his father began to drink heavily, he moved with his younger sister to live with his grandmother on the banks of the River Thames in the Berkshire village of Cookham in southern England. He was an outstanding pupil at St Edward's School in Oxford and wanted to attend Oxford University but was not allowed to do so by his guardian on grounds of cost. Instead he was sent to work at the Bank of England in 1879, and rose through the ranks until retiring as its Secretary in 1908 due to ill health. In addition to ill health, Grahame's retirement was precipitated in 1903 by a strange, possibly political, shooting incident at the bank. Grahame was shot at three times, all of them missed. An alternative explanation, given in a letter on display in the Bank museum, is that he had quarrelled with Walter Cunliffe, one of the bank's directors, who would later become Governor of the Bank of England, in the course of which he was heard to say that Cunliffe was "no gentleman", and that his retirement was enforced ostensibly on health grounds. Grahame 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 "Mo
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The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 1
662The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 2
473The Wind in the Willows
444The River Bank
435The Wind In the Willows (Unabridged)
426The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 3
397The Wind In the Willows (Unabridged) Part 1 of 3
388The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 4
369The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 5
3510The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 6
32albums
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind In the Willows (Unabridged)
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Der Wind in Den Weiden
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Der Wind in den Weiden (Oder Christoph, Großmaul und Cornelius. Die Abenteuer einer lustigen Gesellschaft am Fluss, im Wald und anderswo)
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The Reluctant Dragon
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Wind in the WIllows
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LibriVox Audiobooks
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The Wind In the Willows (Abridged Fiction)
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Der Wind in den Weiden - 1 - Der Fluss
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Der Wind in den Weiden (Hörspiel)
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Der Wind in den Weiden (Die Abenteuer einer fidelen Gesellschaft am Fluss, im Wald und anderswo)
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The Wind In the Willows (Dramatised)