The Wind in the Willows
Messing about in boats, a motorcar obsession, and one chapter of genuine pastoral awe.
- Listening time
- about 6 h 18 min
- Length
- 58,339 words
- First published
- 1908
- Public domain
- the author died in 1932
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 333 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Read to Someone
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How it begins.
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said, “Bother!” and “O blow!” and also “Hang spring-cleaning!”
The Wind in the Willows · Kenneth Grahame · 1908
- MichaelStandardAmerican · male · the free engine0:40
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