Laurel & Hardy

Like many other blogs, a mixture of book reviews, links I found interesting, comments on the day's news.

Thursday, January 12, 2006

A fresh look at an old classic

Just finished reading My Dearest Mouse: The Wind in the Willows Letters by Kenneth Grahame and David Gooderson (who wrote the commentary). I love Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, and really appreciated this behind the scenes look at the creation of it. I highly recommend it any one who loves the original book and is interested in the creative process behind it. My Dearest Mouse is a collection of the letters Kenneth Grahame wrote to his son Alistair (Mouse) that are the foundation of the stories in the book. In many ways, reading this reminded of comparing Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (this link is to Martin Gardner's excellent annotated edition) and Alice's Adventures Under Ground, the facsimile edition of the original story Carroll gave to Alice Liddell.



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