Edit] Religious views

Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the army: "In fighting Hitler", he wrote, "we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God."^[21] His best known comment on the subject was recalled on his death:

"The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course."^[22]

He also wrote:

Elizabeth Ann

Said to her Nan “Please will you tell me how God began? Somebody must have made Him. So

Who could it be, 'cos I want to know?”

— A.A. Milne's poem "Explained"^[23]

Edit] Works

Edit] Novels

• Lovers in London

(1905) (Some consider this more of a short story collection; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.)

• Once on a Time (1917)
• Mr. Pim (1921) (A novelisation of his play Mr. Pim Passes By (1919))
• The Red House Mystery (1922)
• Two People (1931) (Inside jacket claims this is Milne's first attempt at a novel.)
• Four Days' Wonder (1933)
• Chloe Marr (1946)

Edit] Non-fiction

• Peace With Honour (1934)
• It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer (1939)
• War With Honour (1940)
• Year In, Year Out (1952) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)

Edit] Punch articles

• The Day's Play (1910)
• Once A Week (book) (1914)
• The Holiday Round (1912)
• The Sunny Side (1921)
• Those Were the Days (1929) [The four volumes above, compiled]

Edit] Newspaper articles and book introductions

• The Chronicles of Clovis by "Saki" (1911) [Introduction to]
• Not That It Matters (1920)
• By Way of Introduction (1929)

Edit] Story collections for children

• Gallery of Children (1925)
• Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) (illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard)
• The House at Pooh Corner (1928) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)
• Short Stories

Edit] Poetry Collections for Children

• When We Were Very Young
• Now We Are Six

Edit] Story collections

• The Birthday Party (1948)
• A Table Near the Band (1950)

Edit] Poetry

• For the Luncheon Interval [poems from Punch]
• When We Were Very Young (1924) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)
• Now We Are Six (1927) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)
• Behind the Lines (1940)
• The Norman Church (1948)

Edit] Screenplays

Milne wrote 4 stories filmed in 1920 for Minerva Films:

• The Bump (starring Aubrey Smith)
• Twice Two
• Five Pound Reward
• Bookworms

Edit] Plays

Milne wrote over 30 plays, including:

• Wurzel-Flummery (1917)
• Belinda (1918)
• The Boy Comes Home (1918)
• Make-Believe (1918) (children's play)
• The Camberley Triangle (1919)
• Mr. Pim Passes By (1919)
• The Red Feathers (1920)
• The Romantic Age (1920)
• The Stepmother (1920)
• The Truth about Blayds (1920)
• The Dover Road (1921)
• The Great Broxopp (1921)
• The Lucky One (1922)
• The Artist: A Duologue (1923)
• Give Me Yesterday (1923) (a.k.a. Success in the UK)
• Ariadne (1924)
• The Man in the Bowler Hat: A Terribly Exciting Affair (1924)
• To Have the Honour (1924)
• Portrait of a Gentleman in Slippers (1926)
• Success (1926)
• Miss Marlow at Play (1927)
• The Fourth Wall or The Perfect Alibi (1928)
• The Ivory Door (1929)
• Toad of Toad Hall (1929) (adaptation of The Wind in the Willows)
• Michael and Mary (1930)
• Other People's Lives (1933) (a.k.a. They Don't Mean Any Harm)
• Miss Elizabeth Bennet (1936) [based on Pride and Prejudice]
• Sarah Simple (1937)
• Gentleman Unknown (1938)
• The General Takes Off His Helmet (1939) in The Queen's Book of the Red Cross
• The Ugly Duckling (1941)
• Before the Flood (1951)

Edit] Films

Michael and Mary was adapted to cinema in 1931.

The 1963 film The King's Breakfast was based on Milne's poem of the same name.

Edit] References

1. ^ ^abc Thwaite, Ann (January 2008). "Milne, Alan Alexander (1882–1956)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35031.

2. ^ "Hampstead: Education". A History of the County of Middlesex 9: 159–169. 1989. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22657. Retrieved 2008-06-09.

3. ^ Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). "Milne, Alan Alexander". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press.

4. ^ Christopher Finch (2000) Disney's Winnie the Pooh: A Celebration of the Silly Old Bear p.18. Disney Editions, 2000

5. ^ Capitalization as in the British Library Catalogue

6. ^ "The Art of Fiction – P.G. Wodehouse" (pdf). The Paris Review. 2005. pp. 18. Archived from the original on 2008-05-29. http://web.archive.org/web/20080529040738/http://www.theparisreview.com/media/3773_WODEHOUSE.pdf. Retrieved 2008-05-22.

7. ^ "Cotchford Farm". National Monument Records. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=618520#. Retrieved 2008-09-29.

8. ^ "Letter La Z 5 July 1917 – John Middleton Murry to Beatrice Elvery". George Lazarus Collection. 1953-08-12. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/lss/services/mss/collections/online-mss-catalogues/cats/laz4-5cat.html#laz57. Retrieved 2008-06-09.

9. ^ Milne, A. A. (August 1904). "Lillian's Loves". Punch, or the London Charivari 127 (24 August 1904): 142.

10. ^ Milne, A. A. (November 1904). "Answers to [Fictional] Correspondents". Punch, or the London Charivari 127 (9 November 1904): 333.

11. ^ "A.A.Milne". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Archived from the original on 10 May 2008. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052746/AA-Milne. Retrieved 2008-05-22.

12. ^ Eforgan, E. (2010) Leslie Howard: The Lost Actor. London: Vallentine Mitchell; chapter 3. ISBN 978-0-85303-971-6

13. ^ Thomas Burnett Swann (1971). A. A. Milne. p.41. Twayne Publishers, 1971

14. ^ Milne, Alan Alexander (1926) [1922]. "Introduction (dated April 1926)". The Red House Mystery. London: Methuen. pp. ix–xii.

15. ^ Winnie-the-Pooh at the New York Public Library

16. ^ ^abcd Rebecca Ford (28 February 2007) Happy Birthday Pooh Daily Express. Retrieved 15 October 2011

17. ^ Plans to improve access to Pooh Bridge unveiled BBC. Retrieved 15 October 2011

18. ^ Letter from P. G. Wodehouse dated 26 July 1928 at page 114 in P.G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master by David A. Jasen (2002). ISBN 0-8256-7275-9.

19. ^ The Independent. 4 August 1998. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/a-bit-of-a-stink-at-the-garrick-over-winnie-the-poohs-pot-of-money-1169463.html. Retrieved 14 January 2012.

20. ^ The Guardian. 6 March 2001. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2001/mar/06/news. Retrieved 14 January 2012.

21. ^ Milne, Alan Alexander (1940). War with Honour. London: Macmillan. pp. 16–17.

22. ^ Simpson, James B. (1988). Simpson's Contemporary Quotations. Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-43085-2. http://www.bartleby.com/63/93/4393.html.

23. ^ A.A. Milne (2009). WINNIE-THE-POOH COLLECTION SET, THE. illustrated by E.H. Shepard. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-525-42292-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=g8hOrDLnx-gC.

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