In 1908, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind within the Willows used to be released to strangely little severe fanfare. yet readers championed its reason, and Grahame's novel of a riverbank existence quickly proved either a commercial_and finally critical_success. 100 years after its first book, Grahame's booklet and its memorable characters proceed their carry at the public mind's eye and feature taken their position within the canon of kid's literature. notwithstanding, little educational feedback emerged within the wake of the book's preliminary booklet. basically after the looks of Peter Green's biocritical learn did the academy start to combat with Grahame's advanced paintings, although many learn it by way of Grahame's usually unsatisfied own lifestyles. The essays in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind within the Willows: A kid's vintage at a hundred concentrate on contemporary discussions of the e-book with reference to category, gender, and nationality but additionally learn matters formerly no longer addressed through Grahame feedback, comparable to the development of heteronormative masculinity, the allure of this very English novel to chinese language readers, and the that means of a textual content within which animals could be human-like, pets, servants, or even nutrition. This quantity additionally revisits a few of the concerns that experience engaged critics from the beginning, together with the book's dual-strand narrative constitution, the functionality of domestic, and the mental connections among Toad and Grahame. students of fable and kid's literature will locate nice worth during this assortment that sheds new mild in this enduring classic.