Kenneth Grahame was a British writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Scottish by birth, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children. After attending St Edward's School in Oxford, his ambition to attend university was thwarted and he joined the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. Before writing The Wind in the Willows, he published three other books: Pagan Papers (1893), The Golden Age (1895), and Dream Days (1898).
The writing was excellent. However, I was expecting more writings in the vein of The Wind in the Willows. Perhaps more from these original animal characters. Alas, the rest of the omnibus excepting for a couple of other stories, consisted of child characters, their thoughts and doings. Well done, but simply not what I was hoping for. Still the writing was excellent.