Kenneth Grahame

An international children's classic, The Wind in the Willows grew from the author's letters to his young son, yet it is concerned almost exclusively with adult themes. This new edition explores a profoundly English book with a world following; a book for adults adopted by children; a timeless masterpiece and a vital portrait of an age....

In the matter of general culture and attainments, we youngsters stood on pretty level ground. True, it was always happening that one of us would be singled out at any moment, freakishly, and without regard to his own preferences, to wrestle with the inflections of some idiotic language long rightly dead; while another, from some fancied artistic...

'Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.' So says Rat to Mole, as he introduces him to the delights of the river and his friends Toad, the spirit of rebellion, and Badger, the spirit of England. But it is a world where the motor-car is about to wreck the gipsy...

Na pewno wiele razy zastanawiałeś się, jak żyją i co robią zwierzęta z lasu i znad rzeki. "O czym szumią wierzby" to właśnie opowieść o nich - rozsądnym Krecie, mądrym Szczurku, lekkomyślnym Ropuchu, stanowczym i surowym Borsuku oraz sympatycznej i wesołej Wydrze. Zobacz, jakie są ich ulubione zajęcia, i przekonaj się, jak radzą sobie w różnych,...

This is a title in an inexpensive range of classics in the "Penguin Popular Classics" series. Kiedy Mole ucieka od wiosennych porządków i rozpoczyna nowe życie w towarzystwie Szczura Wodnego, nie ma pojęcia, jakie przygody go czekają... Książka w języku angielskim....