I only went in for it because Milne wrote the introduction to a Saki collection I own, but I was glad I did. I must be the first person to review this book on all of goodreads, seeing as I had to "create" a place for it on the website. True the language can read a little dated but considering when these stories were written (the anthology was first published in 1950 the stories themselves earlier) the stories are quite mature. However there is also the fact you get to explore the writing style and vocabulary of A A Mile - after all Whinie the Pooh is hardly a literary challenge (and nor should it be) so here you get to see the full talent of Milne and I must admit it was very educational. Some of the stories could almost be treated as cautionary tales (am sure there is a specific name for them) whereby the author wanted explore a situation or event, the title story is a perfect example of this. A collection of short stories range in size but never more than a dozen pages or so. And so here we have the first book in the set - A table near the band. So when I came across the chance to have a selection of his work I jumped at the chance. I will admit that to me A A Milne is the creator of Whinie the Pooh and all the out inhabitants of the the 1000 acre woods- so to find out that not only did he write a crime novel (the Red House) but also he was a prolific writer in general was a bit of a surprise - sadly I have allowed popular culture and expectations to base my knowledge when really I should have checked for myself. He was 74 years old when he passed away in 1956. He retired to the farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid and by August 1953 "he seemed very old and disenchanted". Milne was Captain of the Home Guard in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain 'Mr. Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex. ![]() He married Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt in 1913, and their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920. Wodehouse got some revenge on his former friend by creating fatuous parodies of the Christopher Robin poems in some of his later stories, and claiming that Milne "was probably jealous of all other writers. ![]() Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprisoned for a year. During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer P. He was discharged on February 14, 1919.Īfter the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour. Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. ![]() ![]() While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems.Ī.
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