"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

The Annotated Wind in The Willows

This eBook comes following a rejection I got yesterday, and since it was the second one in the same day I decided to give you one of my favourite, if not my favourite book of all times. This version of the book comes from the first edition, published in New York on October, 1908 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. I also included texts from a series of articles I published here on the Blog.

As usual, people in the 1st tier get the first chapter, people in the 2nd and 3rd tier get the whole book.

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