A. A. Milne His Life

by Thwaite, Ann

• ISBN13: 9780752440859
• ISBN10: 0752440853
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Tempus

Summary

A.A. Milne is one of the most successful English writers ever. His heart-warming creations - Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Tigger and Piglet - have become some of the best-loved children's characters of all time, and readers the world over are familiar with the stories from the "Hundred Acre Wood". Yet the man himself has remained an enigma. Although in many ways his behaviour was that of a typical golf-playing, pipe- smoking Englishman, Milne refused to be typecast, and his publishers despaired when he turned from writing popular columns for "Punch" to writing detective stories. They complained again when the detective writer presented them with a set of children's verse, but when "When We Were Very Young" became one of the best-selling books of all time, Milne's credibility as one of the world's favourite authors was sealed.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 6
Introduction	p. 7
'I can do it'	p. 13
His Father's Pupil	p. 29
Westminster	p. 51
Cambridge	p. 75
Freelance	p. 97
Punch	p. 115
Marriage and War	p. 141
France and the First Plays	p. 156
Playwright	p. 172
The Arrival of Billy Moon	p. 182
When We Were Very Young	p. 195
The Beginnings of Pooh	p. 224
Winnie-the-Pooh	p. 240
The End of a Chapter	p. 263
Toad of Toad Hall and America	p. 287
The Thirties	p. 305
Hitler's War	p. 337
The Last Years	p. 374
A. A. Milne: A Selected Bibliography	p. 399
Acknowledgements and Sources	p. 403
About the Author	p. 407
Abbreviations used in Index	p. 408
Index	p. 409
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