Eternal Boy

Name: Eternal Boy
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Thank you for looking at this title.\nThis is a New Book from family run Independent Booksellers.\nDuring the week Kenneth Grahame sat behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the Bank of England; on the weekend he retired to the house in the country he shared with his fanciful wife Elspeth and fragile son Alistair, and took lengthy walks along the Thamese, \""tempted . . . [by] the treasures of hedge and ditch; the rapt surprise of the first lords-and-ladies, the rustle of a field-mouse, the splash of a frog.\"" The result of these pastoral wanderings was The Wind in the Willows: an enduring classic of children's literature; a cautionary tale for adult readers; a warning of the fragility of the English countryside; and an expression of fear at threatened social changes that, in the aftermath of the World War I, became reality. Graham was an Edwardian pantheist whose work has a timeless appeal, an escapist whose withdrawal from reality took the form of time travel into his own past.\n\nO.