INTRODUCTION
Encouraged by the reviewer who announced that the
Introduction to my previous collection of plays was
the best part of the book, I venture to introduce
this collection in a similar manner...
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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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Matt Ryan threw for 356 yards and accounted for four touchdowns before leaving the game midway through the fourth quarter and leading No. 14 Boston College to a 37-17 victory over Army on Saturday....
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Colt Brennan passed for 548 yards and four touchdowns and No. 20 Hawaii stopped a 2-point conversion on the final play of the game to beat Louisiana Tech 45-44 on overtime on Saturday night.Brennan...
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Role-playing games with an Internet element are so much more captivating than equivalent electronic games that they change users' lives, cutting into their sleep and boosting the time they spend pl...
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A Burgeoning Bohemian
Marber
was once a suburban dreamer, a well-to-do Wimbledon boy who would rather have been raised among the bohemians of Camden. Though his father worked in the City, the you...
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Receiver Patrick Carter threw a 21-yard touchdown pass to Anthony Allen on a trick play, giving No. 5 Louisville a 10-3 halftime lead against 15th-ranked Wake Forest at halftime of the Orange Bowl ...
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Riley Skinner threw a 30-yard touchdown pass to Nate Morton, and No. 15 Wake Forest pulled to a 10-10 tie with fifth-ranked Louisville through three quarters of the Orange Bowl on Tuesday night.Rec...
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An NCAA committee recommended Wednesday reversing rules enacted last season to shorten football games because the changes resulted in fewer plays being run and confusion at the end of games.The NCA...
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Last season, the NCAA wanted to speed up football games. Next season, it wants more plays. On Thursday, the rules oversight panel approved two major timing changes that would revert the rules to wh...
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NCAA officials expect more excitement _ and perhaps more injuries _ as kickoffs move back to the 30-yard line for this college football season.The NCAA rules oversight panel's decision in March to ...
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