The Economist (US), June 23rd, 1990
A.A. MILNE: His LIFE. By Ann Thwaite. Faber & Faber- 554 pages-(British lb)17.50. To be published in America by Random House Little boy kneels at the foot of the bed, Droops on the little hands little gold head. Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Christopher Robin is saying his prayers. With these words, Alan Alexander Milne loosed on an unsuspecting world one of the titans of twentieth century fiction: his sailor-suited six-year-old son, shortly to be joined in fame by a menagerie of anthropomorphic stuffed animals. He did not mean to; it was his wife Daphne, for whom the pieces had been writte...
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