"Dream Days" from Kenneth Grahame. Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1859-1932).

"Pagan Papers" from Kenneth Grahame. Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1859-1932).

"The Golden Age" from Kenneth Grahame. Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1859-1932).

"The Wind in the Willows" from Kenneth Grahame. Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1859-1932).

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.

First published in 1908, The Wind in the Willows is a literary classic which details a fantasy-esque adventure of four anthropomorphic animals (Toad, Rat, Badger and Mole) as they travel throughout their forest home. It is a classic novel that expertly details many large themes surrounding the human condition. Heavy with metaphor and symbolism, it is regarded as one the greatest books ever penned, not just for its thrilling subject matter and beautiful imagery, but also for its larger commentary on human emotions, social interaction and morality.

Among the many places of magic visited by Pantagruel and his company during the progress of their famous voyage, few surpass that island whose roads did literally "go" to places - "ou les chemins cheminent, comme animaulx" and would-be travellers, having inquired of the road as to its destination, and received satisfactory reply, "se guindans" (as the old book hath it - hoisting themselves up on) "au chemin opportun, sans aultrement se poiner ou fatiguer, se trouvoyent au lieu destine.""