Author: Kenneth GrahamePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511852227
Category :
Languages : fa
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Wind in the Willows (Persian edition)
The Wind in the Willows (Persian Edition)
Author: Kenneth GrahamePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511852227
Category :
Languages : fa
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Wind in the Willows (Persian edition)
Persia and Its People
Author: Ella Constance SykesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Power of Concentration
Author: Eustace MilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Attention
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
If I May
Author: Alan Alexander MilnePublisher: Bibliotech Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A.A. Milne, in full Alan Alexander Milne, (born January 18, 1882, London, England-died January 31, 1956, Hartfield, Sussex), English humorist, the originator of the immensely popular stories of Christopher Robin and his toy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne's father ran a private school, where one of the boy's teachers was a young H.G. Wells. Milne went on to attend Westminster School, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, the latter on a mathematics scholarship. While at Cambridge, he edited and wrote for Granta magazine (then called The Granta, for Cambridge's other river). He took a degree in mathematics in 1903 and thereafter moved to London to make a living as a freelance writer. In 1906 he joined the staff of Punch (where he worked until 1914), writing humorous verse and whimsical essays. He was married in 1913, and in 1915, though a pacifist, he joined the service during World War I as a signalling officer. He served briefly in France, but he became ill and was sent home. He was discharged in 1919. When he was not rehired by Punch, Milne turned his attention to playwriting. He achieved considerable success with a series of light comedies, including Mr. Pim Passes By (1921) and Michael and Mary (1930). Milne also wrote one memorable detective novel, The Red House Mystery (1922), and a children's play, Make-Believe (1918), before stumbling upon his true literary métier with some verses written for his son, Christopher Robin. These grew into the collections When We Were Very Young (1924) and Now We Are Six (1927). These remain classics of light verse for children. Despite Milne's success as a playwright, only these verses and his two sets of stories about the adventures of Christopher Robin and his toy animals-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, Owl, and Eeyore-as told in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928) endured into the 21st century. Illustrations by Ernest Shepard added to their considerable charm. In 1929 Milne adapted another children's classic, The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall. A decade later he wrote his autobiography, It's Too Late Now. (britannica.com)
Not that it Matters
Author: Alan Alexander MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
More Essays on Books
Author: Arthur Clutton-BrockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Mr. Clutton-Brock has collected some more of his essays from the Times Literary Supplement -- to make a second volume to his "Essays on Books." The essays cover a wide field, and there is not one of them but starts a score of discussions and reflections in the reader's mind.
Good Company
Author: Edward Verrall LucasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Phantom Journal
Author: Edward Verrall LucasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Author: Hilaire Belloc