A. A. Milne Summary

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

In the following essay, Stanger uses ideas about the semiotic or preverbal world—as contrasted with the symbolic or verbal one—in order to examine the Pooh books from a feminist perspect... Read more

In the following essay, a review of A. A. Milne: His Life, by Ann Thwaite, Bayley discusses Milne's politics, his personal life, and his frustrated ambitions as a writer of "serious�... Read more