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A.A.Milne: His Life (Paperback)

by Ann Thwaite (Author)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (2 Sep 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571161685
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571161683
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 426,383 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A study of the life of A.A.Milne, from his childhood, when he was educated at his father's school Henley House and taught by H.G.Wells, through his early days on "Granta" and "Punch", to the flowering of his careeer in the 1920s and 1930s. Milne wrote a series of West End plays, including "Mr Pim Passes By", and numbered among his friends P.G.Wodehouse and J.M.Barrie. It was for his son, born in 1920, that Milne wrote the four great children's books of his maturity: "When We Were Very Young", "Now We are Six", "Winnie the Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corner". Revealing Milne's complexity, this biography tells of his strong political feelings, his often difficult personal relationships, and how his successful children's books became an almost intolerable burden. Ann Thwaite was awarded the 1990 Whitbread Biography of The Year for this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wondeful, 11 Jul 2003
By Simon Thomas "bookaholic" (Oxford/Somerset, UK) - See all my reviews
  
This book is truly in a class of its own - the best biography I have ever read. Ann Thwaite appreciates Milne's unique talent and versatility - docutmenting in full his plays, sketches, essays, poems, novels, autobiography, work on pacifism and, of course, children's books.

Ann Thwaite's book is so readable because she clearly loves Milne's books, whether she is dealing with his life (as the title suggests) and therefore him as a father and husband, or his professionaly life, or childhood, Thwaite deals with each topic in a stylistic and researched manner.

Nobody should read the Winnie the Pooh books until they have read this!

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