5 Classic Children's Novels (The Wind in the Willows; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking-Glass; Peter Pan; The Three Musketeers)

1318 Pages·2012·19.62 MB·English

The Wind in the Willows, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan,
and The Three Musketeers are works of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of
the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
A Modern Library eBook Edition
The Wind in the Willows Introduction copyright © 2005 by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Biographical note and reading group guide copyright © 2005 by Random House, Inc.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass Introduction copyright © 2002 by A.
S. Byatt
Notes, biographical note, and reading group guide copyright © 2002 by Random House Inc.
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Carcanet Press Limited for permission to reprint eight lines
from “Alice” from Complete Poems by Robert Graves.
Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited.
Peter Pan Introduction copyright © 2004 by Anne McCaffrey.
Biographical note and reading group guide copyright © 2004 by Random House Inc.
The Three Musketeers copyright ©1950, 1978 by Random House, Inc.
Biographical note copyright ©1996 by Random House, Inc.
Introduction copyright ©2001 by Alan Furst
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The novels contained in this omnibus were each published separately by The Modern Library, an
imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2005,
2002, 2004, and 1996.
Cover painting: Mari Katogi
eBook ISBN 978-0-8129-8447-7
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
The Wind in the Willows
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Peter Pan
The Three Musketeers

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2005 Modern Library Paperback Edition
Introduction copyright © 2005 by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Biographical note and reading group guide copyright © 2005
by Random House, Inc.
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The wind in the willows / Kenneth Grahame; introduction by Jeffrey
Moussaieff Masson; illustrations by Paul Bransom. —Modern Library pbk. ed.
p. cm.—(The Modern Library classics)
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1. Animals—Fiction. 2. England—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction.
4. River life—Fiction. 5. Country life—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series.
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Frontispiece: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
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Master - Table of Contents
The Wind in the Willows
Title Page
Copyright
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
The River Bank
I.
The Open Road
II.
The Wild Wood
III.
Mr. Badger
IV.
Dulce Domum
V.
Mr. Toad
VI.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
VII.
Toad’s Adventures
VIII.
Wayfarers All
IX.
The Further Adventures of Toad
X.
“Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears”
XI.
The Return of Ulysses
XII
READING GROUP GUIDE
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE