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The Sunny Side: Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-ups
A.A. Milne
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Hardcover, 312 pages; 2007 (1921)
$15.96
I reviewed a book the other day. It is not often I do this, because before one can review a book one has to, or is supposed to, read it, which wastes a good deal of time.
Though, of course, most famous for his Winnie-the-Pooh children's books, A. A. Milne had a prolific and successful career writing for adults before the "bear of very little brain" overshadowed the rest of his work. The Sunny Side, originally published in 1921, collects the best of Milne's stories and verses from his career at the legendary British humor magazine Punch. Grouped thematically, the pieces cleverly satirize early-twentieth-century British society—from the literati to the military—with scathing wit and laugh-aloud humor. The Sunny Side will appeal to young-at-heart readers of all ages
(AG)
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