The Real Kenneth Grahame: Tragedy Behind Wind In Willows Elisabeth Galvin White Owl Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

He Wrote One Of The Most Quintessentially English Books Yet Kenneth Grahame (1859 -1932) Was A Scot Four Years Old When His Mother Died And Father Became An Alcoholic So Grew Up With Grandmother Who Lived On Banks Beloved River Thames Forced To Abandon Dreams Studying At Oxford Accepted As Clerk Bank England Where Youngest Men Be Made Company Secretary Narrowly Escaped Death In 1903 Mistaken For Bank\ S Governor Shot Several Times Secretly Spare Time Magazines Contemporary Contributors Including Rudyard Kipling George Bernard Shaw Wb Yeats Kenneth\ First Book Pagan Papers (1893) Initiated Success Followed By Golden Age (1895) Dream Days (1898) Which Turned Him Into Celebrated Author Ironically Famous Novel Today Least Successful During Lifetime: Wind Willows (1908) Originated Letters Disabled Son Later Found Dead Train Line After Suspected Suicide Never Recovered From Tragedy Broken Heart Earshot Widow Elspeth Dedicated Rest Her Life Preserving Husband\ Name Promoting Work Σελίδες: 208 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm