Holiday Round

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Satire, Humor, Single Author Collections, Essays & Short Works

Authors: A. A. Milne In Year : 1912

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Holiday Round

Chapter 1 - Holiday Time
Chapter 2 - The House-Warming
Chapter 3 - At Play
Chapter 4 - Two Stories
Chapter 5 - An Odd Lot
Chapter 6 - Little Plays for Amateurs
Chapter 7 - A Chapter of Accidents
Chapter 8 - Stories of Successful Lives
Chapter 9 Part 1 - A Few Friends
Chapter 9 Part 2 - A Few Friends
Chapter 10 - Epilogue

Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie the Pooh. Yet he was an incredibly prolific author. He published dozens of successful plays, myriad humorous articles written for internationally prominent journals, a wide range of social, political, and other nonfiction works, and even a murder mystery.

This collection is humorous throughout, but humorous in a particularly Milnesque way: he consciously and quite openly rejected the bitterness of satire in favor of a peculiarly gentle, often self-deprecating humor. Included here are dozens of short essays showing, among other things, Milne’s extraordinary capacity to understand – and be understood by – children, and his special affinity for women, as friends and as lovers. - Summary by Kirsten Wever