HOLIDAY TIME
I.—­THE ORDEAL BY WATER
“We will now bathe,” said a voice at the
back of my neck.
I gave a grunt and went on with my dream. It
was a jolly dream, and nobody go...
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A.A. Milne (1882-1956) worked as an essayist, a playwright, a poet, and an adult novelist, in addition to his important contribution as an author of juvenile books. Although he attempted to excel in a...
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Alan Alexander Milne was born in London. Youngest son of schoolmaster John Vine Milne, he attended Westminster School and later Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was graduated in 1903 with honors i...
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In his autobiography, It's Too Late Now (1939), A. A. Milne complains that his children's books have eclipsed his other kinds of writing. Best known before Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) as a playwright, Miln...
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A. A. Milne, father of Christopher Robin and creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, ended his career with a small verse in the New York Herald Tribune Book Review (12 October 1952) titled "Always Time for a Rhym...
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Four books by one author became classics almost as soon as they were published in the 1920s: When We Were Very Young (1924), Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Now We Are Six (1927), and The House at Pooh Corner...
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The Holiday Round
Alan Alexander Milne
A(lan) A(lexander) Milne