The Holiday Round
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
Genre(s): Satire, Single Author Collections, Essays & Short Works
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | Chapter 1 - Holiday Time | Kirsten Wever |
00:47:56 |
Play 02 | Chapter 2 - The House-Warming | Kirsten Wever |
00:45:03 |
Play 03 | Chapter 3 - At Play | Kirsten Wever |
00:42:53 |
Play 04 | Chapter 4 - Two Stories | Kirsten Wever |
00:40:29 |
Play 05 | Chapter 5 - An Odd Lot | Kirsten Wever |
00:49:40 |
Play 06 | Chapter 6 - Little Plays for Amateurs | Kirsten Wever |
01:00:56 |
Play 07 | Chapter 7 - A Chapter of Accidents | Kirsten Wever |
00:55:53 |
Play 08 | Chapter 8 - Stories of Successful Lives | Kirsten Wever |
00:54:45 |
Play 09 | Chapter 9 Part 1 - A Few Friends | Kirsten Wever |
00:32:11 |
Play 10 | Chapter 9 Part 2 - A Few Friends | Kirsten Wever |
00:57:36 |
Play 11 | Chapter 10 - Epilogue | Kirsten Wever |
00:09:39 |