THE anniversary of Wind in the Willows is going to be celebrated by Henley schools (England) as part of the Literary Festival on September 19th.
Four performances have been organised for the first day of the festival, meaning that around 400 school children will see the event.
Exactly 100 years ago the secretary of the Bank of England put the manuscript of a book into an envelope and sent it off to a firm of publishers. They were unimpressed, and sent it back. He tried again, submitting the book to several other firms. They too rejected it. It was not until October, 1908, and the unexpected intervention of President Roosevelt that Kenneth Grahame’s fifth book, The Wind In The Willows, was finally published.
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