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548531
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Title
The wind in the willows
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Year
1993
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Reprint
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Number of pages
251
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0-261-66060-8
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(First published in 1908) Chapter 1: The River Bank. The story begins when Mol is busy with the spring cleaning. Lured by the beautiful weather, he goes outside, where at one point he sees the river for the first time in his life, which he thinks is beautiful, and meets Rat. He takes him for a ride in his rowboat, after which they have a picnic. They see Pad, also in a rowboat. Chapter 2: The Open Road. At Mol's request, he and Rat visit Pad on a summer day. He has had enough of boats again and now wants to go out with a horse-drawn caravan. Rat and Mol are coming along. When the horse is startled by a car passing at high speed, the carriage ends up in a ditch, but this does not matter to Pad. He now wants to have a car himself. Chapter 3: The Wild Wood. Mol would very much like to meet Badger one day, but Rat holds back, knowing that Badger hates visitors. One winter day, Mol goes to Wild Wood on his own, where he gets lost and sees all kinds of scary faces in the darkness. Rat finds him after some time, but when it starts to snow, he doesn't know the way anymore. By coincidence they find Das's house. Chapter 4: Mr. Badger. In the enormous underground house of Das, Rat and Mol are given food and dry clothes. Rat says that Pad has already totaled six cars. Das decides that he will do something about this after the winter. Chapter 5: Dulce Domum. On the way to Rat's house, Mol suddenly smells his own house, where he has not been since meeting Rat, and homesickness overtakes him. He and Rat decide to go there. Chapter 6: Mr. Toad. On a summer day, Das comes by, who wants to do something about Pad's obsession with cars. Das talks to Pad, but because that doesn't help, he decides to place him under house arrest. Toad manages to escape and steals a car, after which he is sentenced to 20 years in prison. Chapter 7: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. The Piper at the Gates of DawnRat visits his old friend Otter and learns that his son is missing. Rat and Mol decide to search for him at night by rowboat. At a certain point they hear music that is so beautiful that they have no choice but to look for its maker. Just before sunrise they find on a small island in the river the god Pan, who has the child with him. Rat and Mole, whose memories Pan erased, return it to his parents. Chapter 8: Toad's Adventures. With the help of the jailer's daughter, Toad, disguised as a washerwoman, manages to escape from prison. A train driver helps him stay out of the hands of his pursuers. Chapter 9: Wayfarers All. At the end of the summer, Rat walks through the area and talks to field mice and swallows, each preparing for winter in their own way. He also meets the Sea Rat, who tells him about Venice and Constantinople, among others. Rat also decides to travel, but Mol manages to stop him. Chapter 10: The Further Adventures of Toad. Toad, who is still dressed as a laundress, comes across a tow barge and gets into a fight with its owner. He steals her horse and sells it to a gypsy. Meanwhile, he is starting to take pride in his escape and sings an arrogant song, the first verse of which reads: The World has held great Heroes, As history-books have showed; But never a name to go down to fame Compared with that of Toad! When he sees a car coming, he decides to hitchhike, but it happens to be the car he stole earlier. However, the occupants do not recognize him and take him with them. Toad cannot control himself and asks if he can drive for a while, which quickly leads to an accident. He flees and reaches Rat's house. Chapter 11: 'Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears'. Rat tells Toad that although Badger and Mol looked after it, his house has been taken over by a group of Wild Wood weasels, ermines and ferrets who wanted to party there. Das says there is a secret passage from the river to Toad Hall. The title is a (slightly modified) line from Tennyson's poem Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead. Chapter 12: The Return of Ulysses. Das, Rat, Mol and Toad manage to enter via the secret passage and chase away the intruders relatively easily. The title of this chapter refers to the end of Homer's epic The Odyssey, in which the returned Odysseus deals extremely violently with the men who have more or less taken possession of his house.

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