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Happy Half Hours Selected Writings of A. A. Milne

Name: Happy Half Hours
Author: A.A. Milne

Auteur: A.A. Milne

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: A.A. Milne

Engels
Hardcover
9781912559053
20 oktober 2020
180 pagina's

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A.A. Milne

"Alan Alexander Milne (/mɪln/; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War II.

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A.A. Milne, best known as the author of the classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories, was a successful writer long before his children's stories launched him to overnight success. Milne himself disliked being relegated as a children's author. At the age of twenty-three, he was appointed the Assistant Editor of Punch. He claimed 'I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.' Milne had a talent for regularly turning out a thousand whimsical words on lost hats and umbrellas, tennis, dogs, faulty geysers, dotty maids, women loading film in a camera, the English obsession with rank and titles, cheap cigars, and any amount of life's other little difficulties. He was praised for being able to produce 'with apparently effortless ease and the utmost gaiety' articles notable for their 'enchanting ingenuity'. But there was another, more serious side to Milne. After serving in World War 1, where he survived the Somme, Milne was invalided home with trench fever in 1916. His experiences made him a committed and vocal pacifist. War was nothing but 'mental and moral degradation'. His fiercely argued pacifism was ahead of his time, and forms some of his most powerful work.;This selection of Milne's articles, spanning over four decades of his life from 1910 to 1952, are collected for the first time in this volume, including his passionately argued writings on pacifism. The writings demonstrate his trademark wit, varied genius, little-known political views, and nostalgia for a lost era.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 20 oktober 2020
Aantal pagina's: 180
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Hoofduitgeverij: Notting Hill Editions

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Product lengte: 189 mm
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