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Happy Half Hours (Hardcover)
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Happy Half Hours (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R433
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A.A. Milne, best known as the author of the classic Winnie-the-Pooh
stories, was a successful writer long before his children's stories
launched him to overnight success. Milne himself disliked being
relegated as a children's author. At the age of twenty-three, he
was appointed the Assistant Editor of Punch. He claimed 'I know no
work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish
of fetching an idea from nowhere.' Milne had a talent for regularly
turning out a thousand whimsical words on lost hats and umbrellas,
tennis, dogs, faulty geysers, dotty maids, women loading film in a
camera, the English obsession with rank and titles, cheap cigars,
and any amount of life's other little difficulties. He was praised
for being able to produce 'with apparently effortless ease and the
utmost gaiety' articles notable for their 'enchanting ingenuity'.
But there was another, more serious side to Milne. After serving in
World War 1, where he survived the Somme, Milne was invalided home
with trench fever in 1916. His experiences made him a committed and
vocal pacifist. War was nothing but 'mental and moral degradation'.
His fiercely argued pacifism was ahead of his time, and forms some
of his most powerful work.;This selection of Milne's articles,
spanning over four decades of his life from 1910 to 1952, are
collected for the first time in this volume, including his
passionately argued writings on pacifism. The writings demonstrate
his trademark wit, varied genius, little-known political views, and
nostalgia for a lost era.
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