The Wind in the Willows has its origins in the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told to his son Alastair and then continued in letters (now held in the Bodleian Library) while he was on holiday. But the book developed into something much more sophisticated than this, as Peter Hunt shows. He identifies the colleagues and friends on whom Grahame is thought to have based the characters of Mole, Rat, Badger and Toad, and explores the literary genres of boating, caravanning and motoring books on which the author drew. He also recounts the extraordinary correspondence surrounding the book's firs The Making of Wind in the Willows - Peter Hunt od authora Peter Hunt a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Peter Hunt |
Jazyk |
český |
Počet stran |
128 |
Rok vydání |
2018 |
Nakladatelství |
University of Chicago |