The Wind in the Willows
Mole leaves his spring cleaning, meets a Rat with a boat, and falls in with a Badger and a Toad who cannot be trusted near a motor car. Warm and slow, with one chapter that turns strange.
Things worth knowing
- The stories began on a night in May 1904 when Grahame's son Alastair, called Mouse, refused to settle down and assigned his father subjects to invent on: moles, giraffes and water-rats, going on past midnight.
- In January 1909 Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Grahame that he had read it and reread it and had come to accept the characters as old friends.
Listen, or read along
Every chapter has the recording and the same chapter as text. Open both if you like: the text is the words you are hearing.
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1 Chapter One 23 min
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2 Chapter Two 23 min
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3 Chapter Three 23 min
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4 Chapter Four 24 min
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5 Chapter Five 28 min
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6 Chapter Six 24 min
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7 Chapter Seven 20 min
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8 Chapter Eight 26 min
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9 Chapter Nine 31 min
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10 Chapter Ten 31 min
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11 Chapter Eleven 32 min
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12 Chapter Twelve 25 min
Where this comes from
US public domain: first published 1908, before the 1930 cutoff. Author d.1932, so also clear in life+70 jurisdictions.
Cover image: generated for this edition.
Narration: text-to-speech.
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