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Kenneth Grahame est un romancier britannique.

Il est principalement connu pour son roman Le Vent dans les saules , un classique de la littérature pour enfants, écrit à l'origine pour son fils qui partageait l'entêtement de Crapaud, Baron Tétard . Son illustrateur le plus célèbre est Ernest Howard Shepard.

Devenu orphelin, Grahame part vivre avec sa grand-mère. Il fait ses études à Oxford mais ne peut entrer à l'université. Il travaille à la Banque d'Angleterre jusqu'à sa retraite en 1907. Son poste lui laisse le temps de débuter dans le journalisme, puis d'écrire des nouvelles. Il publie Pagan papers puis The golden age et Dream days.

✵ 8. mars 1859 – 6. juillet 1932
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“Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!”

Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame: Citations en anglais

“Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 3

“Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,' said the Rat. 'And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or me. I've never been there, and I'm never going, nor you either, if you've got any sense at all.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 1

“Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows

“when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows

“It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows

“I'm such a clever Toad.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows

“It'll be all right, my fine fellow," said the Otter. "I'm coming along with you, and I know every path blindfold; and if there's a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows

“Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly
life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are
strong enough to lead it!”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows

“Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Variante: It takes all sorts to make a world.
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 4
Contexte: The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent — I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

“There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows

“All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all!”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 2, "The Open Road"

“There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 4, "Mr. Badger"

“It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 2

“A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 2

“The clever men at Oxford
Know all that there is to be knowed.
But they none of them know one half as much
As intelligent Mr. Toad!”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 10

“Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose. The water's own noises, too, were more apparent than by day, its gurglings and 'cloops' more unexpected and near at hand; and constantly they started at what seemed a sudden clear call from an actual articulate voice.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 7, "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn"

“Oh dear, oh dear, how stupid men are when they get an idea into their heads! I tell you he's a good dragon, and a friend of mine, and tells me the most beautiful stories you ever heard, all about old times and when he was little. And he's been so kind to mother, and mother'd do anything for him. And father likes him too, though father doesn't hold with art and poetry much, and always falls asleep when the dragon starts talking about style. But the fact is, nobody can help liking him when once they know him. He's so engaging and so trustful, and as simple as a child!”

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Kenneth Grahame livre The Reluctant Dragon

The Boy to St. George
Dream Days (1898), The Reluctant Dragon

“Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 6, "Mr. Toad"

“He was indeed an altered Toad!”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 12

“"But this would be a beautiful place for a fight," he began again persuasively. "These great bare rolling Downs for the arena, — and me in my golden armour showing up against your big blue scaly coils! Think what a picture it would make!"
"Now you're trying to get at me through my artistic sensibilities," said the dragon. "But it won't work. Not but what it would make a very pretty picture, as you say," he added, wavering a little.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre The Reluctant Dragon

Dream Days (1898), The Reluctant Dragon

“The Mole had long wanted to make the acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 3, "The Wild Wood"

“Free! The word and the thought alone were worth fifty blankets. He was warm from end to end as he thought of the jolly world outside, waiting eagerly for him to make his triumphal entrance, ready to serve him and play up to him, anxious to help him and to keep him company, as it always had been in days of old before misfortune fell upon him.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 10

“Weasels — and stoats — and foxes — and so on. They're all right in a way — I'm very good friends with them — pass the time of day when we meet, and all that — but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then — well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Rat, Ch. 1
The Wind in the Willows (1908)

“Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am — my friends get round me — we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories — and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I’ve been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Toad, Ch. 11, "Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears"
The Wind in the Willows (1908)

“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 6

“My dear little man," said the dragon solemnly, "just understand, once for all, that I can't fight and I won't fight. I've never fought in my life, and I'm not going to begin now, just to give you a Roman holiday. In old days I always let the other fellows — the earnest fellows — do all the fighting, and no doubt that's why I have the pleasure of being here now.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre The Reluctant Dragon

The dragon to the Boy.
Dream Days (1898), The Reluctant Dragon

“The Boy made his way back to the village in a state of great despondency. First of all, there wasn't going to be any fight; next, his dear and honoured friend the dragon hadn't shown up in quite such a heroic light as he would have liked; and lastly, whether the dragon was a hero at heart or not, it made no difference, for St. George would most undoubtedly cut his head off.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre The Reluctant Dragon

Dream Days (1898), The Reluctant Dragon

“Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre The Reluctant Dragon

Dream Days (1898), The Reluctant Dragon

“Monkeys, who very sensibly refrain from speech lest they should be set to earn their livings.”

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Kenneth Grahame livre The Golden Age

The Golden Age. "Lusisti Satis"

“All the animals cheered when he entered, and crowded round to congratulate him and say nice things about his courage, and his cleverness, and his fighting qualities; but Toad only smiled faintly, and murmured, 'Not at all!”

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Kenneth Grahame livre Le Vent dans les saules

Or, sometimes, for a change, 'On the contrary!'
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 12

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