The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame

📖 Delivered as a downloadable ePub file. Illustrated edition — featuring Paul Bransom's classic 1913 color illustrations. Description: Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger share riverbank adventures in this gentle 1908 English classic — a favorite for its warmth, humor, and Toad's reckless escapades.

Excerpt

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!" and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.