The Holiday Round
A. A. Milne
Read by Kirsten Wever
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 (8 hr 17 min)
Chapters
Chapter 1 - Holiday Time | 47:56 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Chapter 2 - The House-Warming | 45:03 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Chapter 3 - At Play | 42:53 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Chapter 4 - Two Stories | 40:29 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Chapter 5 - An Odd Lot | 49:40 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Chapter 6 - Little Plays for Amateurs | 1:00:56 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Chapter 7 - A Chapter of Accidents | 55:53 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Chapter 8 - Stories of Successful Lives | 54:45 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Chapter 9 Part 1 - A Few Friends | 32:11 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Chapter 9 Part 2 - A Few Friends | 57:36 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Chapter 10 - Epilogue | 9:39 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Reviews
Rebecca Janse Van Vuuren
a lot of little short stories. nice for an easy listen or just to help pass time.