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Alan Alexander Milne(eng. 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.
Milne married Dorothy de Selincourt in 1913 and had a child in 1920. The only son- Christopher Robin Milne.

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, a long time ago... (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)

Alan Alexander Milne - photo

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.

British writer Alan Aleksander Milne remains in the history of literature and the memory of readers as the author of stories about a teddy bear with sawdust in his head, and a number of poems. He considered himself a serious playwright and short story writer. Milne Alan Alexander lived his life under this paradox, whose biography will be discussed below.

Early years and education

In the family of the director of a private school in London, John Vine and Sarah Marie Milne, a third son, Alan Alexander, was born on January 18, 1882. A. A. Milne was educated at Westminster School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics. At the same time, together with his brother Kenneth, he published articles under the initials AKM in the student magazine Grant. In 1903, Milne Alan Alexander moved to London, whose biography will now be connected with his true calling - literature.

War and the beginning of literary activity

Since 1906 he has been published in Punch magazine, and humorous poems and essays have been published in other magazines since 1914. In 1915, A. A. Milne left to serve as an officer in the British army. He was wounded at the Battle of the Somme. After recovery, he works in the military intelligence propaganda service and writes patriotic articles. He was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant in 1919. During the war, he wrote his first play, but success came after 1920, when comedies appeared in theaters, favorably received by critics and the public. At the same time, 4 films were made based on his scripts. In 1922, he published a detective story called “Secrets of the Red House.”

Marriage and literature

In 1913, on the eve of the war, A. Milne married Dorothy de Selkencourt. went inextricably personal life And military service writer whose name is Milne Alan Alexander. His biography was replenished with 18 plays and 3 novels by 1925. And earlier his son was born (August 1920). In 1924, A. Milne published a collection of children's poems, When We Were Young, and bought a house in Hartfield in 1925.

They leave at the same time short stories for children "Children's Gallery", which he later used when writing his own popular work. Life and creativity went in parallel. So far Milne Alan Alexander, whose biography began to change in 1926, had every reason to be satisfied. It was from this time that he began to be perceived as exclusively children's writer.

Cult fairy tale "Winnie the Pooh"

A. Milne's son had toys: Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga and Tigger. Below is their photo.

They are now in New York. 750 thousand people visit them annually to see them. Milne named the hero of his tale "Winnie" after seeing a Canadian black bear from Winnipeg at the zoo. “Pooh” comes from a swan that the writer met while on vacation. This is how Winnie the Pooh turned out. Three more characters - Owl, Rabbit and Roo - were created solely from the writer's imagination. In 1926, the first version of Winnie the Pooh was published. On next year the sequel “Now there are six of us” was published, and a year later the finale appeared - “The House on the Pooh Edge”.

The first book immediately brought worldwide fame and money. The writer was not dizzy from fame and success. Being in doubt about his literary talent, Milne Alan Alexander, whose biography and work in the minds of readers were tightly connected with Vinnie, tried to break out of the existing stereotype of a children's writer. But the charming heroes did not let him go. The book was published in insane editions; its number exceeded 7 million copies during A. Milne’s lifetime. She translated to everything foreign languages. Cartoons were created based on it. She began to live an independent life, eclipsing everything that A. Milne worked on further.

Life goes on

On the one hand, A. Milne was grateful to his wife and son for creating the book, but on the other hand, he did not introduce his son Christopher Robin to it. Milne read to his son the works of his friend P. G. Wodehouse, whose work he admired. And the adult son then, in turn, raised his daughter Claire on the stories and tales of the amazing humorist Wodehouse.

Alan Alexander Milne wrote a lot from 1931 onwards. His books will not meet with such an enthusiastic reception as the simple-minded, slightly selfish Vinnie. In 1931 the novel “Two” was published, in 1933 - “A Very Short-lived Sensation”, in 1934 - the anti-war work “Honorable Peace”, in 1939 - “Too Late” (an autobiographical work), in 1940-1948 . - poetic works“Behind the Front Lines” and “Norman Church”, in 1952 - a collection of articles “Year after Year”, in 1956 - the novel “Chloe Marr”.

The writer worked hard, and critics and readers greeted this creativity with indifference and indifference. Alan Alexander Milne found himself hostage to his charming hero, who immortalized his name.

Why is Vinny so attractive?

The story told by A. Milne fired like a fireworks, a volley of cheerfulness and vivacity. There is no struggle between good and evil, but there is slight irony, with which the author observes his characters, whom he settled in a fairy-tale forest, very reminiscent of his surroundings own home. Time in a fairy tale is frozen and does not change. Robin, the owner of the toys, is always 6 years old, Winnie - 5, Piglet - an awful lot - 3 or 4 years old! Plush Vinnie is an optimist who greets every day with pleasure.

Problems and suffering are alien to him. He is a glutton and a gourmet. When the Rabbit invites him to choose what he will eat: bread with honey or condensed milk, then, following the rules good upbringing, Winnie, who has a sweet tooth, refuses three items of food, leaving only honey and condensed milk. This is where it gets funny. The little bear has sawdust in his head, but he makes noisemakers and chants. He is ready at any moment to help his friends or pretend that he is a cloud and go to the bees for honey. Good fantasies are constantly born in his “smart” little head. Other characters are also charming: the pessimistic Donkey, the learned Owl, and the shy Piglet. They all expect praise and take themselves very seriously.

Last years

During the 2nd World War, A. Milne's son Christopher tried to join the army, but did not get into it for medical reasons. He later married his cousin, which upset his parents. A. Milne gave birth to a granddaughter, Claire, who suffers from cerebral palsy. The father occasionally met with his son, but the mother did not want to see him. A. A. Milne himself died after a severe brain illness (which began in 1952) in 1956 at his home in Hartfield.

Alan Alexander Milne: interesting facts

The teacher at the school where A. Milne studied was G. Wells, whom the writer considered both a teacher and a friend.
On his first birthday, the writer gave one year old son Teddy bear, whom he named Edward. Only in the book did he turn into Vinnie and was a year younger than its main character.

The book has been translated into 25 languages, including Latin.
The number of records sold with the recording of the book exceeded 20 million copies.
Christopher Robin himself first became acquainted with the book sixty years after its creation.
His father sent his toys to the USA. You can look at them in public library New York.
Images of Vinny appeared on stamps from 18 countries, including the USSR after the release of the cartoon.
A series of stamps from Canada, one depicts the lieutenant with Winnipeg Bear, the second - Christopher with a teddy bear, the third - the heroes of the classic illustrations for the book, and finally the fourth - Winnie from the Disney cartoon.

Milne Alan Alexander(1882-1956) - prose writer, poet and playwright, classic of twentieth-century literature, author of the famous " Winnie the Pooh».

Biography

Scottish by birth Alan AlexanderMilne spent his childhood in London. Since childhood I dreamed of becoming a writer.

Milne grew up in a family where children were encouraged to be creative, with youth composed funny poems, showed ability to exact sciences.

He studied at a private school, owned by his father. Then he entered Westminster School, and then Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics.

His early education was largely determined by the influence of youth teacher J. Wells - much later Milne wrote of Wells as "a great writer and a great friend." He continued his education at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Subsequently, he presented the handwritten original of his book “ Winnie the Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Edge" in the College Library.

During his student years, as a student at Cambridge, he fulfilled his long-time dream by becoming the editor of Granta magazine, for which he wrote poems and stories, and his first literary experiments were published in the humor magazine Punch.

As a result, Milne completely abandoned his studies and moved to London, where he began working at Punch magazine.

A month after his twenty-fourth birthday, Milne began working for Punch as assistant editor until the outbreak of the First World War.

In 1913 he married Dorothy de Selincourt, goddaughter of magazine editor Owen Seaman (said to be the psychological prototype of Eeyore), and his only son Christopher Robin was born in 1920.

A born pacifist, Milne was drafted into the Royal Army and served in France.

His famous anti-war work, An Honorable Peace, was published in 1934. This book found a huge response in interwar times, and in 1924 Meffin published the famous stories Milna"When We Were Very Young", some of which had previously been published in Punch and were well known to the magazine's regular readers.

By that time, Milne had written several funny plays, one of which, Mister Pym Passed (1920), was a success.

When his son was three years old, Milne began to write poems about him and for him, devoid of sentimentality and accurately reproducing children's egocentrism, fantasies and stubbornness.

The enormous success of the book of poems, illustrated by Ernest Shepard, prompted Milne to write the fairy tales Prince Rabbit (1924), The Princess Who Couldn't Laugh and The Green Door (both 1925), and in 1926 he wrote Winnie the Pooh. All the characters in the book (Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga and Roo) except Rabbit and Owl were found in the nursery (now the toys that served as prototypes are kept in the Teddy Bear Museum in the UK), and the topography of the Forest resembles the area around Cotchford, where the family Milna spent the weekend.

Two years later, in 1926, the first version of Winnie the Pooh appeared. The second part of the stories “Now there are six of us” appeared in 1927 and, finally, the final part of the book “The House on the Pooh Edge” was published in 1928. Milne it seemed that he wrote something like a well-selling detective story, because his book immediately earned two and a half thousand pounds. Even after dizzying success Winnie the Pooh Milne was in doubt about his literary talent. He wrote: “All I wanted was to run away from this fame, as I used to want to run away from Punch, as I always wanted to run away... However...”

In 1922 he actually wrote a detective story, The Mystery of the Red House, which was published by Meffin in 1939 along with 25 other plays, short stories and an autobiography. Milna"It's too late now."

Milne has always acknowledged and repeatedly gratefully emphasized the decisive role of his wife, Dorothy, and his son, Christopher, in the writing and the very fact of the appearance of " Winnie the Pooh" The history of the creation of this book is indeed full of mysteries and contradictions, but the fact remains that books about Pooh Bear have been translated into 25 languages and have taken their place in the hearts and on the shelves of millions of readers.

First chapter Pooh"In Which We Meet Winnie the Pooh and the Bees for the First Time" was first published in a London evening newspaper on December 24, 1925, and broadcast on BBC Radio on Christmas Day by Donald Calfrop. Winnie the Pooh was first published by Meffin in October 1926, and has been for many years Milnovsky books are recognized classics of children's bookshelves and Disney cartoons.

The irony is that Milne was convinced that he wrote neither children's prose nor children's poetry. He spoke to the child inside each of us. He never read his Pooh stories to his son, Christopher Robin, preferring to raise Christopher on the works of his favorite writer, Wodehouse. Wodehouse subsequently returned Milne this compliment, saying that " Milne- his favorite children's writer."

Wodehouse's books continued to live in the house Milna and after his death. Christopher Robin read these books to his daughter Claire, bookshelves whose room was literally bursting with books by this children's writer. Christopher wrote to his friend Peter: “My father understood nothing about the specifics of the book market, knew nothing about the specifics of sales, he never wrote books for children. He knew about me, he knew about himself and about the Garrick Club (London's literary and artistic club) - and he simply did not pay attention to everything else... Except, perhaps, life itself." Christopher Robin first read poems and stories about Winnie the Pooh 60 years after their first appearance, when I heard Peter's recordings on record.

The adventures of Winnie the Bear are loved by both adults and children. Conducted in 1996 A poll conducted by English radio showed that this book took 17th place in the list of the most striking and significant works published in the twentieth century.

Worldwide sales of Winnie the Pooh since 1924 to 1956 exceeded 7 million. As you know, when sales exceed a million, publishers stop counting them.

Since 1968, the Muffin publishing house has sold 500,000 copies annually, with 30 percent sold in “new countries”—Australia, South Africa, New Zealand. By 1996, about 20 million copies had been sold, published only by Muffin. This does not include publishers in the United States, Canada, or non-English-speaking countries.

In 1960, Winnie the Pooh was brilliantly translated into Russian Boris Zakhoder. Anyone who speaks two languages can attest that the translation was done with exquisite precision and ingenious ingenuity. In general, Vinnie has been translated into all European and almost all world languages.

Each of the characters in the book is about Winnie the Pooh has a memorable character and charm, and the ending of the book “The House on the Edge of Pooh” is poignantly lyrical. The wild success of the Winnie the Pooh books (they were translated into twelve languages and sold about fifteen million copies) eclipsed everything else Milne wrote: the detective novel The Mystery of the Red House (1922), the novels Two (1931) and Chloe Marr" (1946), essays, plays and autobiographical book"It's Too Late" (1939).

In 1966, Walt Disney released the first animated film based on the book. Milna « Winnie the Pooh" This film, just under half an hour long, follows the adventures of a boy named Christopher Robin and his beloved teddy bear. Winnie the Pooh, seen in films and on television by millions of children. Bringing Heroes to Life Milna Through animation, Disney and his team of artists sought to preserve the style of Ernst Shepard's original drawings, which were as beloved as the stories themselves. The film was directed by Wolfgang Reiterman, who also directed Disney's The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood and The Aristocats.

Famous Hollywood actor Sterling Holloway voiced the role Winnie the Pooh, and Sebastian Cabot read the text behind the scenes. The director's ten-year-old son, Bruce Reiterman, spoke for Christopher Robin. Composers Richard and Robert Sherman, who won an Oscar for their score for Mary Poppins, wrote five songs for the Pooh film. It's all made for one thing animated film lasting 26 minutes. Without a doubt, Winnie the Pooh and the Bee Tree has achieved widespread acclaim only because a treasure of a worldwide children's classic has been transferred with the utmost care into another form. In by next years Several animated sequels were released (including television ones).

In 1969-1972 in the USSR, the Soyuzmultfilm film studio released three cartoons directed by Fyodor Khitruk, “Winnie the Pooh”, “Winnie the Pooh Comes to Visit” and “Winnie the Pooh and the Day of Worries”, which won the love of the children's audience of the Soviet Union.

In addition to the world famous Winnie the Pooh, Alexander Alan Milne known as a playwright and short story writer. His plays were successfully performed on the professional stage in London, but are now staged mainly in amateur theaters, although they still attract full houses and arouse the interest of the public and the press.

In 1952 Milne became seriously ill... He had to undergo severe brain surgery. The operation was successful, and after it Milne returned to his home in Sexes, where he spent the rest of his life reading. After a long illness, he died in 1956, on January 31.

Soon after the release Winnie the Pooh» A.A. Milne wrote in The Nation: “I think that each of us secretly dreams of immortality. In the sense that his name will survive the body and will live in this world, despite the fact that the person himself has passed on to another world.” When Milne died, no one had any doubt that he had discovered the secret of immortality. And this is not 15 minutes of fame, this is real immortality, which, contrary to his own expectations, was brought to him not by plays and short stories, but by a little bear cub with sawdust in his head.

In 1996, the favorite teddy bear Milna was sold in London at Bonham's auction to an unknown buyer for £4,600. (Approximately $7400).

Interesting facts from life

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 book's characters (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 the 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 is Alexander Lenard's translation into Latin language called Winnie ille Pu. The first edition was published in 1958, and in 1960 Latin Pooh became the first book not published English language, which made the New York Times bestseller list. On the cover of a number of publications, Vinnie 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 against the backdrop of Walt Disney World in Florida.

Bibliography

Winnie the Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh

House on Pukhovaya 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 B.V. Zakhoder; In some latest translations The division into two books has been preserved.

Poetry

When we were very little

Now we're six

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

Table by the orchestra

Exactly at eleven

Portrait of Lydia

Novels

Lovers in London (1905)

Once upon a time, a long time ago... (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)

Film adaptations of works, theatrical productions

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

1999: Seasons of Giving

2000: The Tigger Movie

2002: A Very Merry Pooh Year

2003: Piglet's Big Movie ( Big movie about Piglet)

2004: Springtime with Roo (Spring days with baby Roo)

2005: Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie (Winnie the Pooh and Halloween for the 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

Animated films 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.

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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 by mentioning Winnie the Pooh, at the same time they inevitably criticize new works, an attitude towards which they had formed even 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 Winnie-the-Pooh)
House on Poohovaya Edge The House at Pooh Corner)

Translated into Russian - without two chapters of the original - under the general title “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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Literature

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

A passage characterizing Milne, Alan Alexander

I would have given a lot back then to find at least some opportunity to warn people about this. But, unfortunately, I didn’t have such an opportunity... Therefore, after Veronica’s sad visit, I began to look forward to when I could help someone else. And life, as always usually happened, did not take long to wait.
Entities came to me day and night, young and old, male and female, and everyone asked me to help them speak with their daughter, son, husband, wife, father, mother, sister... This continued in an endless stream, until, in the end, I I felt that I didn't have more strength. I didn’t know that when coming into contact with them, I had to be sure to close myself with my (and very strong!) defense, and not open up emotionally, like a waterfall, gradually giving them all of my vitality, which at that time, unfortunately, I did not know how to fill.
Very soon I literally had no strength to move and went to bed... When my mother invited our doctor, Dana, to check what had happened to me again, she said that it was my “temporary loss of strength from physical fatigue”... I didn’t say anything to anyone, although she knew perfectly well the real reason this "overwork". And as I had been doing for a long time, I simply honestly swallowed any medicine that my friend prescribed for me. cousin, and, after lying in bed for about a week, she was again ready for her next “exploits”...
I realized long ago that sincere attempts to explain what was really happening to me gave me nothing but headaches and increased constant monitoring of me by my grandmother and mother. And to be honest, I didn’t find any pleasure in this...
My long “communication” with the essences of the dead once again “turned upside down” my already quite unusual world. I could not forget that endless stream of deep human despair and bitterness, and I tried in every possible way to find at least some way to help them. But the days passed, and I could not come up with anything on my own, except, again, to act in the same way, only this time spending my life force on it much more carefully. But since I couldn’t take what was happening calmly, I still continued to make contacts and tried to help, as best I could, all the souls who despaired of their helplessness.
True, sometimes there were funny ones, almost funny incidents, one of which I wanted to talk about here...

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 immediately explode. 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 this case, it came from a dead person...
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 (from 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.

English writer, Scottish by birth, Alan Alexander Milne spent his childhood in London, where his father worked at a school.

English playwright, poet, storyteller, author classic books English children's literature: “When We Were Little” (1924; collection of poems), “Now We Are Six” (1927), “Winnie the Pooh” (1926) and “The House on Pooh Edge” (1928; Russian retelling by B. Zakhoder under title "Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All", 1960).

Milne grew up in a family where children were encouraged to be creative, wrote funny poems from a young age, showed an aptitude for the exact sciences, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge to study mathematics.

During his student years, he fulfilled his long-time dream by becoming the editor of Granta magazine, for which he wrote poems and stories. As a result, Milne completely abandoned his studies and moved to London, where he began working at Punch magazine.

In 1913 he married Dorothy de Selincourt, goddaughter of magazine editor Owen Seaman (said to be the psychological prototype of Eeyore), and his only son Christopher Robin was born in 1920. By that time, Milne had managed to visit the war and write several funny plays, one of which, “Mr. Pym Passed By” (1920), was a success.

When his son was three years old, Milne began to write poems about him and for him, devoid of sentimentality and accurately reproducing children's egocentrism, fantasies and stubbornness. The enormous success of the book of poetry, illustrated by Ernest Shepard, prompted Milne to write the fairy tales Prince Rabbit (1924), The Princess Who Couldn't Laugh and The Green Door (both 1925), and in 1926 Winnie the Pooh was written. All the characters in the book (Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga and Roo) except Rabbit and Owl were found in the nursery (now the toys that served as prototypes are kept in the Teddy Bear Museum in the UK), and the topography of the Forest resembles the area around Cotchford, where the family Milna spent the weekend.

Each of the characters has a memorable character and charm, and the ending of the book “The House on the Edge of Pooh” is achingly lyrical. The wild success of the Winnie the Pooh books (they were translated into twelve languages and sold about fifteen million copies) eclipsed everything else Milne wrote: the detective novel The Mystery of the Red House (1922), the novels Two (1931) and Chloe Marr (1946), essays, plays and autobiographical book It's Too Late (1939).

In 1966, Walt Disney released the first animated film based on Milne's book, Winnie the Pooh. This film, just under half an hour long, tells the adventures of a boy named Christopher Robin and his favorite toy bear, Winnie the Pooh, and has been seen in films and on television by millions of children. By bringing Milne's characters to life through animation, Disney and his team of artists sought to preserve the style of Ernst Shepard's original drawings, which were as beloved as the stories themselves. The film was directed by Wolfgang Reiterman, who also directed Disney's The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood and The Aristocats.

Famous Hollywood actor Sterling Holloway voiced the role of Winnie the Pooh, and Sebastian Cabot read the text behind the scenes. The director's ten-year-old son, Bruce Reiterman, spoke for Christopher Robin. Composers Richard and Robert Sherman, who won an Oscar for their score for Mary Poppins, wrote five songs for the Pooh film. All this was done for one animated film lasting 26 minutes. Without a doubt, Winnie the Pooh and the Bee Tree has achieved widespread acclaim only because a treasure of a worldwide children's classic has been transferred with the utmost care into another form. In subsequent years, several animated sequels (including television ones) were released.