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The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames valley.
In 1908, Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Cookham, Berkshire, where he had been brought up and spent his time by the River Thames doing much as the animal characters in his book do—namely, as one of the phrases from the book says, "simply messing about in boats"—and wrote down the bed-time stories he had been telling his son Alistair.
In 1909, Theodore Roosevelt, then President of the United States, wrote to Grahame to tell him that he had "read it and reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends". The novel was in its thirty-first printing when playwright A. A. Milne adapted a part of it for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. In 2003, The Wind in the Willows was listed at number 16 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
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Keywords: 1930s, based-on-novel, british, cinderella, elderly-couple, fairy-tale, footman, irish, kitchen-maid, maidActors: Ava DuVernay (miscellaneous crew), Joan Scheckel (miscellaneous crew), Joan Scheckel (miscellaneous crew), Chris Blackwell (producer), Carolyn Pfeiffer (producer), Suzanne Fenn (writer), Suzanne Fenn (editor), Carl Bradshaw (producer), Carl Bradshaw (actor), Paul Campbell (actor), Dan Genetti (producer), Lloyd Reckord (actor), Nahtasha Budhi (actress), Elephant Man (actor), Robbie Shakespeare (composer),
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Genres: Fantasy,Actors: Russ Tamblyn (actor), Ross Hagen (actor), Hoke Howell (actor), Nancy Kwan (actress), Fred Olen Ray (actor), Amber Tamblyn (actress), Norbert Meisel (producer), Norbert Meisel (actor), Tony Lorea (actor), Anthony Caldarella (actor), Bernie Pock (writer), Bernie Pock (actor), Bernie Pock (director), Sergei Goncharoff (actor), Jennifer Wilson (composer),
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Keywords: actress-shares-first-name-with-character, crime-gang, employment, family-rejection, frame-up, frame-up-victim, irish, jewel-robbers, job-termination, landlady[Gary Moore Coverversion]