The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame · 1908 CE · Novel · English · Modernist

Mole abandons his spring cleaning for the river and falls in with Rat, Badger and the incorrigibly rich Toad. Toad's passion for motor-cars takes him through crashes, court, prison and the loss of his house to the weasels of the Wild Wood. Home longed for, left, and regained.

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Lineage

• alludes to ↑ The Odyssey
  Homer · c. 725 BCE · Poem
• ↓ Charlotte's Web
  E. B. White · 1952 CE · Novel — influenced by this

Attributes

Closest analogues

• The House at Pooh Corner
  A. A. Milne · 1928 CE · Novel

  57% · 16 shared
  NovelFantasyComedyLoyaltyModernistTricksterAlly / CompanionEpisodicThe RiverThe Housevs Selfvs NaturePastoralComicElegiacEnglish
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  Coen Brothers · 2000 CE · Film

  55% · 11 shared
  ComedyTemptationExile & HomecomingTricksterEverymanEpisodicVoyage and ReturnHome / ReturnThe RiverThe JourneyComic
• Toy Story
  John Lasseter · 1995 CE · Film

  49% · 10 shared
  FantasyComedyLoyaltyExile & HomecomingTricksterAlly / CompanionThe JourneyThe Housevs SelfComic
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  Mark Twain · 1884 CE · Novel

  46% · 11 shared
  NovelLoyaltyTricksterAlly / CompanionEverymanEpisodicVoyage and ReturnThe RiverThe Journeyvs SelfComic
• Winnie-the-Pooh
  A. A. Milne · 1926 CE · Novel

  45% · 13 shared
  NovelFantasyComedyLoyaltyModernistTricksterAlly / CompanionEpisodicvs Selfvs NaturePastoralComicEnglish
• The Odyssey
  Homer · c. 725 BCE · Poem

  45% · 9 shared
  LoyaltyTemptationExile & HomecomingTricksterVoyage and ReturnFall–Rise (Man in a Hole)Home / ReturnThe Journeyvs Nature