Ia milna. Alan Alexander Milne biography

Alexander Alan Milne (A.A.Milne, 1882-1956) - famous British writer, playwright, poet and journalist. The general public is known as the author of children's poems and fairy tales about Winnie the Pooh, which have become classics of world literature. They have been successfully filmed in many countries around the world, including Russia. Alan Milne wrote many plays that were staged in theaters in New York, Chicago, Manchester, and Liverpool.

Childhood and youth

Alexander Alan Milne was born on January 18, 1882 in London in the Kilburn area. His father, John Milne, a teacher by training, owned a small private school, where his son studied. As a child, Alan felt jealous of his older brother, to whom, it seemed to him, his mother paid more attention. This will affect future life writer, in which he will always prove that he is worthy of the love of others.

Among the boy's mentors was famous science fiction writer G. Wells. Upon completion of his studies, he entered Westminster School, after which he studied the secrets of mathematics at Trinity College for three years.

WITH youth future writer became interested in writing, and his family helped him in every possible way in his creative development, which did not fail to affect him in the future. IN student years Alexander, together with his brother Kenneth, under the pseudonym AKM, wrote short notes, verses and fairy tales for the student newspaper "Grant".

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The brothers’ works turned out to be so in demand that Alan soon felt confident in his abilities and sent his work to the popular humorous publication “Punch” in Foggy Albion. But, to deep disappointment, his essay was not accepted.

Soon Milne sent another work - a parody of Sherlock Holmes - to the magazine Vanity Fair, where, to the surprise of the author, it was published. After this he will say: "The first appearance of my initials in a magazine... filled me with a kind of shame."

Then public fame is for the humble young man was still a novelty.

At 24, Milne's dream came true. He became a full-time contributor to Punch magazine. His name began to appear on the pages of the publication every week, and orders were scheduled for months in advance. The sparkling, subtle humor expressed in poetry and prose captivated the reader, making him sincerely laugh at the characters.

In 1914, the First World War began. An opponent of wars, Alan Milne volunteered for the front, deeply convinced that this war would end all other conflicts. Disgusted by what is happening, he writes at the front at night to take his mind off the flow of blood and dead bodies. Under these conditions the first was born war work writer - "Wurzel's Chatter". In memory of this period of life, 20 years later, the book “Peace with Honor” was written, imbued with pacifist sentiments.

After returning from the war, Milne set off on an independent voyage, completely devoting himself to his own plays. In 1921, he wrote the play “Mr. Pin Passes By,” staged at theater stages many English and American cities. On the wave of success, a year later, Alan writes the novel "The Mystery of the Red House", called one of the critics the best detective of all times.

In 1923, the family moved to North Wales for the summer, but due to the endless rain, the writer spends hours in the gazebo, peering into the sky and looking for inspiration. This is how a collection of children's poems called “When We Were Very Little” appeared, printed in record numbers. He wrote it about his son and for his son. True, later in his memoirs Christopher Robin would say that his father did not rely on personal experience communication with a child who simply did not exist, but general ideas. And indeed it is. In the family, all issues of raising their son were entrusted to the boy’s beloved nanny.

The blossoming of a creative career

In October 1926, a book about Winnie the Pooh, a cheerful little bear with sawdust in his head, was first published in Britain. The author did not at all expect that it would create a real sensation and his name would immediately become known throughout the country. It was a rare newspaper that did not publish a photo of a famous and successful writer. Soon in an interview Milne will say: "I think that each of us dreams of immortality."

As Alexander later explained, he meant to preserve his name in people's memory.

Translated into many languages, the book excited the minds of publishers, and they demanded a continuation. Milne just needed money to treat his brother Ken, who had tuberculosis. After some persuasion, the fairy tale “The House on Pooh Edge” was written, which became the last in this cycle.

Milne's work was adapted into Russian by B. Zakhoder, who managed to accurately convey the colorful image of a good-natured bear. Despite the popular love for Winnie the Pooh, there was a person who hated this character. It turned out to be the hero of the fairy tale himself - the writer's son Christopher, who claimed that she had darkened his life. And Alan himself admitted many times that more than once he really wanted to hide from this fame.

After the death of his beloved brother Ken, in 1929, Milne writes new play"Michael and Mary", dedicated to the memory of a close relative. Two years later it will be staged in New York. As it turned out, this was the last serious success in the author’s creative career.

After the outbreak of World War II, Alan and his family moved to his estate, where he often imagined his childhood, his parents, and his beloved brother. The writer’s head comes up with the idea of ​​writing his own autobiography, which he will call “Too Late,” imbued with warm memories of his brother.

Personal life

In 1913, at one of the parties, Alexander met Dorothy de Selincourt, who was the goddaughter of Punch editor O. Seaman. Having gained strength and overcome his eternal shyness, he invited the girl to dance and lost his head in love. The next day the writer proposed marriage and received consent.

It turns out that Daphne (as her family called her) more than once read the works of her future husband, published in Punch magazine, and was familiar with him in absentia. Assessing this fact, Milne will say: "She had... the best sense of humor in the world."

However, over time it turns out that their marriage is far from perfect. Dorothy's complex and capricious character, coupled with her fanatical passion for the garden, because of which she paid little attention to her husband, created a deep crack in the relationship. Despite this, in 1920 the couple had their only son, Christopher Robin. As it turned out, his birth seriously influenced the creative fate of his father.

In 1931, Daphne left Milne and went to live with an American. Years later, she will return to her husband without encountering a single reproach from him.

In 1952, the writer suffered a severe stroke, from which he was never able to recover. On January 31, 1956, Alan Milne died in London after long illness. In 1961, Daphne, to the great disappointment of her own son, sold the rights to the works about Winnie the Pooh to Walt Disney.

(1882-1956) English writer

Millions of children and adults all over the world are familiar with a cute bear named Winnie the Pooh. A fairy tale about him and his friends - Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Rabbit and others - was written by Alan Alexander Milne. There is another one in the fairy tale main character- This little son writer Christopher Robin, who became not only a participant in this amazing fairy tale, but, strange as it may seem, one of its authors. And Winnie the Pooh was involved in the history of creating a fairy tale about himself and his friends. After all, this already pretty shabby teddy bear was the most favorite toy little boy Christopher Robin, who did not part with him throughout his childhood.

So Winnie the Pooh became a member of the Milne family and the main actor fairy tales. In the end, he became so famous that he eclipsed the fame of even his creator, who is now known only because he came up with the fairy tale about Winnie the Pooh.

Alan Alexander Milne really did not create anything more significant, despite the fact that he had other works.

He came from a family that was as proud of its ancestry as it was of its noble birth aristocrats. All members of this family were quite extraordinary people, although they were not distinguished by their birth. Milne's great-grandfather was a mason and his grandfather a Presbyterian minister. He worked as a missionary in Jamaica, then returned to England and founded thirteen schools there,

after which he began to preach again. During his life, he never managed to save even the slightest decent amount to help his son get out into the world. He generously distributed everything he earned to poor people.

The writer's father had a hard time. He worked as an accountant at a confectionery factory, as a mechanic's assistant, and then as a teacher's assistant. In the end, he still entered the university, and after graduation he founded his own school. It was very good educational institution. At one time, the future worked there as a teacher. famous writer Herbert Wells. He and Alan Milne's father remained friends all his life. Wells later recalled Milne in his book An Essay on Autobiography.

Milne Sr. tried to give his son Alan Alexander a good education. Alan studied at Westminster School and graduated from the mathematics department of Cambridge University. During his studies, he edited the university magazine Granta and published his own humorous essays there. Literary work Milne liked mathematics more, so after graduating from university he decided to devote himself to literature. However, it was not easy to publish my works in any serious publication. It happened that editors did not even read the manuscripts that Milne delivered to the editorial offices of magazines.

Therefore, he did not believe his own eyes when one day he saw his parody “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” published in the magazine “Vanity Fair”.

And yet, the works of Alan Alexander Milne, although not often, appeared in magazines, and his name became famous. In 1906, he became editor of Punch magazine and thus was able to publish his works freely. Things were finally looking up for him. Milne got married and soon published his humoresques about sports from Punch magazine as a separate book.

During the First World War he served in a reserve signal battalion, then went to the front, but fell ill and was returned to England. For some time Alan Milne was an instructor at a boot camp, then worked in the propaganda department of the War Ministry, from where he was demobilized after the war with the rank of lieutenant.

Even during the war, he began to engage in drama. First he wrote a play for the amateur troupe of the signal battalion, and then began to create plays for professional theaters. After the war, Milne becomes a famous writer and playwright. His comedies were successful in theaters, and the detective novel “The Mystery of the Red House” was even considered a classic.

In 1920, a son, Christopher, was born into the family of Alan Milne. When the boy was one year old, he was given a teddy bear, who was named Winnie the Pooh. Then Christopher got a toy Eeyore and Piglet the pig. Later this company was supplemented by Kanga and Tiger, and Milne invented Owl and Rabbit for the fairy tale.

Christopher was growing up, and real performances were played out in the nursery, in which all family members took part - father, mother, little son and his toys, which in the fairy tale behaved like living beings.

Alan Alexander Milne began writing children's books for his son. At first it was poetry, and then “Winnie the Pooh” appeared. It turned out like this.

At the very beginning of the twenties, friend Alana Milnov opened children's magazine and asked Milne to write some poems for him. The writer refused, but still began to think about what he could write. As a result, the poem “Sonya and the Doctor” and other poems appeared, which were published as a separate book in 1924.

And then Milne remembered all the fairy tales that he had told his son and began to write them down. In 1926, the first book “Winnie the Pooh” was published, which included ten stories about the bear cub and his friends.

In 1927 it appeared A new book children's poems by Alan Milne, and in 1928 - the book “The House on Pooh Edge”, which included ten more stories about Winnie the Pooh. Thus, the first book about this wonderful bear cub was published when Christopher was three years old, and the last one when he was already eight years old. In 1925, Milne purchased a large rural house with services and a large forest of 200 hectares - Cochford Farm, where the fairy tale mainly took place.

Alan Alexander Milne wrote other works for his son. He published a collection of “Stories about Christopher Robin”, “A Book to Read about Christopher Robin”, “Birthday Stories about Christopher Robin” and even such an entertaining book as “The Alphabet of Christopher Robin”. In addition to these, he wrote other short children's works.

However, Alan Milne no longer wrote about Winnie the Pooh. He even got angry when they asked him about it, and said: “If a person once wrote about a policeman, they will demand that he write only about policemen all his life.”

Everything was explained by the fact that Christopher grew up and Milne stopped writing fairy tales for him. But for some reason he didn’t want to compose them for other children. But this was the writer’s mistake, because his other works were no longer successful.

In 1938, a theatrical production based on Milne's play Sarah Simple was a complete failure. After that, he stopped writing for the theater. Gradually the readers cooled down and humorous works writer, and Punch magazine, where Milne was again invited to work, even refused his services. In 1939, Alan Alexander Milne wrote his autobiography, but, after short-term success, it too was forgotten.

Alan Milne's literary fortunes left him when he was only forty-eight years old. Soon his name began to be mentioned only as the author of Winnie the Pooh. He is still known in this capacity to this day.

“Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All” is a typical family fairy tale, the kind parents usually come up with for their young children. Moreover, it reflected cases and situations that actually happened in the Milne family, only they were acted out by the animated toys of Christopher Robin and himself.

The son of the writer Christopher Milne, to whom one of the most remarkable children's works is dedicated, became a shopkeeper. At first he was engaged in grocery and haberdashery trade, and then opened bookstore and began to prosper. At the age of 54, he published his own book “ Enchanted places", in which he talked about his childhood.

Then he published another book - “The Road Through the Trees”, where he again talked about his life, but as an adult. True, both of these books were not particularly successful and were interesting only because their author was involved in the creation of a wonderful fairy tale about Winnie the Pooh bear and his friends.

Years of life: from 01/18/1882 to 12/31/1956

English writer, poet and playwright, best known for his works for children. Author of the famous "Winnie the Pooh".

Alan Alexander Milne was born on January 18, 1882 in London. Since childhood I dreamed of becoming a writer. Studied at private school, owned by his father. Then he entered Westminster School, and then Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics.

He took part in the First World War as an officer in the British army, and then spent many years working in the editorial office of the English humor magazine Punch and became an assistant editor. In 1913, he married Dorothy de Selincourt, goddaughter of magazine editor Owen Seaman (who was said to be the psychological prototype of Eeyore), and his only son, Christopher Robin, was born in 1920. By that time, Milne had already been to war and written several funny plays, one of which, “Mr. Pym Passed,” was a success.

It was thanks to the birth of Christopher Robin that stories about the “bear with sawdust in his head” were born. Milne told his son stories about Winnie the Pooh and his friends at night. The heroes of these stories were the boy’s toys and himself. In 1926, the first book about Winnie the Pooh was published, and two years later the second, entitled “The House on Pooh Edge,” was published.

Most readers in our country are familiar with stories about Winnie the Pooh from translations by Boris Zakhoder. The heroes of the writer Alan Milne are known and loved by children all over the world. Cartoons have been made based on fairy tales, and there is even a monument to Winnie the Pooh at the London Zoo.

The incredible popularity of Milne's children's books dampened his successes in other genres. Meanwhile, Milne is the author of novels, short stories, poems and plays.

In 1952, the writer underwent unsuccessful brain surgery and was disabled for the last 4 years of his life. Milne died in Hartfield on January 31, 1956.

At the school where Alan Milne studied, H. G. Wells taught.

As a student, he wrote notes for the student newspaper Grant. He usually wrote with his brother Kenneth, and they signed the notes with the name AKM.

Winnie the Pooh's official date of birth is August 21, 1921, which is the day Christopher Robin Milne turned one. On this day, Milne gave his son a teddy bear (which, however, received the name Pooh only four years later).

Christopher Robin's toys, which became the prototypes of the characters in the book (except for Little Roo, who has not survived), have been in the USA since 1947 (given there by Milne the Father for an exhibition, and after his death acquired by the Dutton publishing house), until 1969 they were kept in the publishing house, and currently on display at New York public library. Many British people believe that this is the most important part cultural heritage countries must return to their homeland. The issue of toy restitution was even raised in the British Parliament (1998).

One of the most famous translations of books about Pooh into foreign languages- translation by Alexander Lenard into Latin language called Winnie ille Pu. The first edition was published in 1958, and in 1960 Latin Pooh became the first non-English book to appear on the New York Times bestseller list. On the cover of a number of publications, Vinny is depicted in the garb of a Roman legionnaire with a short sword in his left paw.

Winnie the Pooh is depicted on postage stamps at least 18 states (including the USSR post office in 1988, the stamp is dedicated to the history Soviet cartoon). The Canadian series of four stamps also deserves special mention, where one stamp depicts Lieutenant Harry Colborne with a Winnipeg bear cub, the other - little Christopher Robin with a teddy bear, the third - characters from Shepard's illustrations, the fourth - Disney's Pooh in the background Walt Disney World in Florida.

Bibliography

Fairy tales
Prince Rabbit
Princess Nesmeyana
An ordinary fairy tale

Stories
The truth is in the wine
Christmas story
Amazing story
Mr. Findlater's Dreams
Christmas grandfather
Before the flood

Exactly at eleven
Portrait of Lydia
River

Novels
Lovers in London (1905)
(eng. Once on a Time, 1917)
Mr. Pim (eng. Mr. Pim, 1921)
The Red House Mystery, 1922
(eng. Two People, 1931)
(eng. Four Days "Wonder, 1933)
Chloe Marr (eng. Chloe Marr, 1946)

Film adaptations of works, theatrical performances

List of Disney films about Winnie the Pooh :
Short cartoons
1966: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree)
1968: Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
1974: Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (Winnie the Pooh, and with him Tigger)
1981: Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons
1983: Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (Pooh and a holiday for Eeyore)
Full-length cartoons
1977: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (“The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh”; combines the first three short cartoons)
1997: Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin ( Big Adventure Winnie the Pooh: The Search for Christopher Robin)
1999: Seasons of Giving
2000: The Tigger Movie
2002: A Very Merry Pooh Year
2003: Piglet’s Big Movie
2004: Springtime with Roo (Spring days with baby Roo)
2005: Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie ( Winnie the Pooh and Halloween for Heffalump)
2007: My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
2009: My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Tigger and Pooh And A Musical Too
TV serials
Welcome to Pooh Corner (Welcome to Pooh Corner, Disney Channel, 1983-1995)
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, ABC, 1988-1991)
The Book of Pooh (Puhova Book, Disney Channel, 2001-2002)
My Friends Tigger & Pooh (My Friends Tigger & Pooh, Disney Channel, 2007-)
Holiday Specials
1991: Winnie the Pooh & Christmas Too! (Winnie the Pooh and Christmas)
1996: Boo! To You Too! Winnie the Pooh (Boo! You too! Winnie the Pooh)
1998: A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving
1998: Winnie the Pooh, A Valentine For You

Cartoons, produced in the USSR and Russia :
Winnie the Pooh. USSR, 1969.
Winnie the Pooh is coming to visit. USSR, 1971.
Winnie the Pooh and Care Day. USSR, 1972.
Why I like the elephant (from the almanac “Merry Carousel”, No. 15): Based on the poem by A.A. Milne. USSR, 1983.
Royal Sandwich: Based on the poem by A.A. Milne, translated by S.Ya. Marshak. USSR, 1985.
Nikopeyka: Based on a children's poem by A.A. Milne. Russia, 1999.

Works

Milne was well known as Punch's feuilletonist, and collections of his essays were regularly republished. Milne's plays were popular and critical successes, according to E. Twight (English)Russian, for a short time Milne was "one of the most successful, prolific and well-known playwrights in England". However, the success of his children's books eclipsed all other achievements, and, much to Milne's own displeasure, he began to be considered a children's writer. According to P. Connolly Paula T. Connolly), Milne's works for children turned out to be similar to Frankenstein - the creation took possession of the creator: the public demanded new books in this genre, and critics considered Milne's other works in the context of his children's books. When the writer returned to novels in the 1930s and 1940s, readers ignored him, and critics used the reference to children's books to jab him. Milne himself complained that critics who begin a review with a mention of Winnie the Pooh inevitably criticize new works, which they had an attitude towards before reading. By the end of his life, Milne's children's books had sold 7 million copies, and his books for adults were no longer in print.

Winnie the Pooh

• Winnie the Pooh (English) Winnie-the-Pooh)
• House on Poohovaya Edge The House at Pooh Corner)

Translated into Russian - without two chapters of the original - under common name“Winnie the Pooh and all-all-all” by Boris Zakhoder.

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Fairy tales

• Prince Rabbit
• An ordinary fairy tale
• Once upon a time...
• The Ballad of the Royal Sandwich

Stories

• Truth is in wine (In vino veritas)
• Christmas story
• Amazing story
• Mr. Findlater's Dreams
• Christmas grandfather
• Before the flood
• Exactly at eleven
• Portrait of Lydia
• The Rise and Fall of Mortimer Scrivens
• Midsummer (June 24)
• A word about autumn
• I don't like blackmailers
• Stories of happy destinies

Novels

• Lovers in London Lovers in London, 1905)
• Once upon a time, a long time ago... Once on a Time, 1917)
• Mister Pym Mr. Pim, 1921)
• The Mystery of the Red House The Red House Mystery, 1922)
• Two (English) Two People, 1931)
• A very short-lived sensation Four Days" Wonder, 1933)
• Too late (English) It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer , 1939)
• Chloe Marr (ur. Chloe Marr, 1946)

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Notes

Literature

• Connolly, Paula T. Winnie-The-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner: Recovering Arcadia. - Twayne Publishers, 1994. - ISBN 0-8057-8810-7.

Links

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It was a gray cloudy day outside. Low lead clouds, swollen with water, barely dragged themselves across the sky, threatening at any moment to burst into a “waterfall” downpour. The room was stuffy, I didn’t want to do anything, just lie there, staring at “nowhere” and not think about anything... But the fact is that I never knew how not to think, even when I honestly tried to relax or rest. So I sat in my dad’s favorite chair and tried to drive away my “dreary” mood by reading one of my favorite “positive” books.
After some time, I felt someone else’s presence and mentally prepared to greet the new “guest”... But instead of the usual soft breeze, I was almost glued to the back of the chair, and my book was thrown to the floor. I was very surprised by such an unexpected violent manifestation of feelings, but decided to wait and see what would happen next. A “disheveled” man appeared in the room, who, without saying hello or identifying himself (which everyone else usually did), immediately demanded that I “immediately go with him” because he “urgently needs me”... He was so nervous and “boiling” that it almost made me laugh. There was no smell of sadness or pain, as happened with the others. I tried to pull myself together to look as serious as possible and calmly asked:
- Why do you think that I will go somewhere with you?
- Don’t you understand anything? I'm dead!!! – his voice screamed in my brain.
“Well, why I don’t understand, I know perfectly well where you’re coming from, but that doesn’t mean at all that you have the right to be rude to me,” I answered calmly. “As I understand it, it’s you who need help, not me, so it would be better if you try to be a little more polite.”
My words gave the man the impression of an exploding grenade... It seemed that he himself would explode immediately. I thought that during his life he must have been a very spoiled person by fate or simply had a completely creepy character.
– You have no right to refuse me! Nobody can hear me anymore!!! – he yelled again.
The books in the room spun like a whirlwind and fell together on the floor. It seemed that inside this strange man A typhoon is raging. But then I also became indignant and slowly said:
“If you don’t calm down right now, I’ll leave the contact, and you can continue to rebel alone if it gives you so much pleasure.”
The man was clearly surprised, but “cooled down” a little. It seemed that he was not used to not being obeyed immediately as soon as he “expressed” any of his desires. I never liked people of this type - neither then nor when I became an adult. I have always been outraged by rudeness, even if, as in in this case, it came from the dead...
My violent guest seemed to calm down and asked in a more normal voice if I wanted to help him? I said yes, if he promises to behave normally. Then he said that he absolutely needed to talk to his wife, and that he would not leave (the earth) until he could “get through” to her. I naively thought that this was one of those options when the husband loved his wife very much (despite how wild it looked to him) and decided to help, even if I didn’t like him very much. We agreed that he would return to me tomorrow when I was not at home and I would try to do everything I could for him.

Alan Alexander Milne (January 18, 1882 - January 31, 1956) - English writer, author of stories about the “bear with sawdust in his head” - Winnie the Pooh.

Born in Kilburn, London. Took part in the First World War. For many years he was an employee of the English humor magazine Punch.

Some have something in their heads, others don’t, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Milne Alan Alexander

Milne began writing stories about Winnie the Pooh for his son, Christopher Robin Milne (1920–1996). Before the publication of the books about Winnie the Pooh, Milne was already a fairly famous playwright, but the success of Winnie the Pooh has acquired such proportions that Milne's other works are now practically unknown.

Milne was born in London. He attended a small private school owned by his father, John Milne. One of his teachers was Herbert Wells. Then he entered Westminster School, and then Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics.

As a student, he wrote notes for the student newspaper Grant. He usually wrote with his brother Kenneth, and they signed the notes with the name AKM. Milne's work was noticed, and the British humor magazine Punch began to collaborate with him, and Milne subsequently became an assistant editor there.

If you live in London long enough, you are sure to visit the zoo sooner or later. There are people who enter the gate, where there is an "ENTRANCE" sign, and quickly run past all the cells in a row, heading for another gate, with an "EXIT" sign. Connoisseurs go straight to their favorite animals and stay there.
(Quote from the fairy tale "Winnie the Pooh" Translation from English: text - Victor Weber, poetry - Natalia Rein)

Milne Alan Alexander

Milne served in the First World War as an officer in the British Army. He later wrote a book, Peace with Honor, in which he condemned the war.
In 1913, Milne married Dorothy de Selincourt, and in 1920 their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born.

Works
Winnie the Pooh
* Winnie-the-Pooh
* The House at Pooh Corner

Poetry
*When we were very small
* Now we're six

Fairy tales
* Prince Rabbit
* Princess Nesmeyana
* Ordinary fairy tale
* Once upon a time...

Stories
* Truth is in wine
* Christmas story
* Amazing story
* Mister Findlater's Dreams
* Santa Claus
* Before the flood
* Table near the orchestra
* Exactly at eleven
* Portrait of Lydia
* River

Novels
* Lovers in London (English: Lovers in London, 1905)
* Once upon a time... (eng. Once on a Time, 1917)
* Mr. Pim (eng. Mr. Pim, 1921)
* The Red House Mystery, 1922
* Two (English Two People, 1931)
* A very short-lived sensation (eng. Four Days` Wonder, 1933)
* Chloe Marr (eng. Chloe Marr, 1946)

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Alan Alexander Milne - quotes

If one day I am not by your side, remember: you are braver than you suspect, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. And one more thing - I will always be with you, even if I am not there.