The classic tales of the Middle Thames, of the River Bank, the Wild
Wood, Ratty, Mole, Mr Badger, and the incorrigible Toad, have been
cherished by children and wise adults for generations. Amongst
those who cherish them are Bapton Books' partners, GMW Wemyss,
historian and West Country essayist, and American historian Markham
Shaw Pyle. The noted annotators of Kipling, and acclaimed for their
histories of 1912, 1940, and 1941, Mr Pyle and Mr Wemyss here
expand and re-issue their classic annotated version of Grahame,
with some 345 footnotes that explain the Edwardian scene, canals,
rural JPs and Toad's motoring offences, the sad fate of Kenneth
Grahame's son, class issues in the Wild Wood, and Classical
mythology. With their sense of history and landscape, their love of
this book of both their childhoods, and an eye for literary
cross-references, Mr Wemyss and Mr Pyle range from the Psalter and
the Book of Common Prayer to the Sacred Canon of Sherlock Holmes,
from Eliot to Tolkien, Gissing to Betjeman, Kipling to Aristotle,
in giving this classic new depth and resonance. Even if you have
never wondered just which canal Toad was thrown into, or why Toad's
trial is only the second funniest in English literature, this
annotated edition will deepen and enrich your reading of these
inimitable stories. Adults and sensible children - or, rather,
children and sensible adults - will rejoice anew in them.
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