a story about animals living around a river. (or alternately an allegory for the class struggle post Victorian and pre-WWI which takes into account the possible actions one class could take by rising against the other and also the consequences of such actions, written in a way even a child could understand.)
review
This novel is one of the best according to the BBC's Big Read survey which placed it at number 16 of the best British books. The speed of the story varies, much like the river it is told around, from meandering descriptions of setting and character to fast paced dialogue and adventure. This truly has something for everyone, the middle school boy, the middle school girl, the university historian reading into it as allegory and the normal person reading it as a wonderful story full of vibrant characters. Everyone ought to read this novel, it is a light volume making for a quick read.
8/10
8/10
“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.”
“Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.”
“But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty in it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.”
If you enjoyed this please reed:
everything by Francis Hodgson Burnett
everything by Edith Nesbit
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