| An Gwyns i'n Helyk: The Wind in the Willows in Cornish Contributor(s): Grahame, Kenneth (Author), Shepard, Ernest H. (Illustrator), Williams, Nicholas (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1782010297 ISBN-13: 9781782010296 Publisher: Evertype OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback Language: Cornish Published: November 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Classics - Juvenile Fiction | Animals - General |
| Dewey: 823.8 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.58 lbs) 202 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Yth yw "An Gwyns i'n Helyk" classyk a lien flehes. Yma peswar ch ff person i'n lyver, logosen dowr, goodh'or, brogh ha cronak, hag ymowns y oll ow c wsel hag owth omdhon kepar ha mebyon tus. Dhe n tya kefr s yw kebmys a gefyr i'n novel a gevr nyeth, a aventur, a voralyta hag a felshyp inter an bestas aga honen. Sherp inwedh yw an aswonvos i'n lyver a'n dyvers dosbarthow socyal a Bow an Sowson in termyn Edward VII. An auctour, Kenneth Grahame, a styas in Ostel Greenbank, Arwednak, rag termyn i'n vledhen 1907, hag ev a dhalathas screfa y novel br s i'n tyller-na i'n form a lytherow dh'y vab, Alistair. In gwir yth hevel bos radn a natur an Cronak i'n lyver gr ndys w r Alistair Grahame y honen, a wrug y v wnans troblys gorfedna kyns s y ugansves pedn bloodh. Dres p b tra aral, bytegyns, yma "An Gwyns i'n Helyk" ow ry dhyn pyctur a bow nat ral Nans Dowr Tamys moy s cans bledhen alebma. An novel re beu meurgerys gans flehes dhia b n veu dyllys rag an kensa pr s i'n vledhen 1908. -- "The Wind in the Willows" is a children's classic, whose main characters are four anthropomorphised animals, a water rat, a mole, a badger and a toad. The novel is remarkable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camaraderie and for the acute awareness shown in it of the differing social classes of Edwardian England. The author, Kenneth Grahame, stayed in the Greenbank Hotel, Falmouth, for a period in 1907 and it was there that he began to write his novel in the form of letters to his son, Alistair. Indeed some of the characteristics of Toad in the novel may have been based on Alistair himself, whose troubled life ended before his twentieth birthday. Most of all, however, "The Wind in the Willows" evokes the natural environment of the Thames Valley at the beginning of the last century and it has been a favourite of children since it was first published in 1908. |