The now grown-up Christopher Robin recalls his family life and the persons and situations that were sources of inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories

The Enchanted Places

Milne, Christopher

Literature & Fiction

Harmondsworth Penguin

If you know Winnie the Pooh, and who doesn't, this book is a little diamond, a book full of great details, a book which gives a unique view of the Christopher Robin myth.

The enchanted places

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

EYRE METHUEN

The Open Garden: A Story with Four Essays

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] ''In my first book, The Enchanted Places,'' Christopher Milne writes in his preface, ''I was writing about my childhood, saying what I needed to say about Pooh and Christopher Robin. The present book is in a way a sequel, starting where the other left off. But, rather more than that, it is a complement, it is about the non-Pooh part of my life. It is an escape from Christopher Robin.'' Everyone who grows up within a family experiences the need to outgrow parents and teachers, to make a way of life that is his own, and to create his own circle of friends and family--however large or small. As a young man, Christopher Milne found himself seeking his own path through life against a background of two central experiences. The first was being A. A. Milne's son--which brought the peculiarly unique problem he describes so poignantly in his first book. The second was the war, in which he served in the Royal Engineers in North Africa and Italy. After the war, following some years of searching in London, Christopher Milne and his wife, Lesley, made their home and their career in Dartmouth, Devon, where they founded the Harbour Bookshop in 1951. The Path through the Trees is a moving account of a young man's search for his own identity. It offers a fascinating and affectionate account of a struggling (and later thriving) bookshop, and of the author's own family life in a small English country town. The path its author chose has not led him to a mountain top but it has taken courage to follow and has clearly brought him happiness. His achievement in this book is to tell the story of this journey simply, vividly, and often humorously. This audiobook is read by Peter Dennis, the actor who brought life to A. A. Milne's 'Pooh' stories and verses in various other works published by Blackstone Audio. A longtime friend of the Milne family, he made both this recording and The Enchanted Places as a gift for Clare Milne, Christopher Robin Milne's only child.

the path through the trees

Memoirs

E.P.Dutton

, 154 pages, black and white photographic plates, signed by author on title page

The hollow on the hill: The search for a personal philosophy

Contemporary

METHUEN

''In my first book, The Enchanted Places,'' Christopher Milne writes in his preface, ''I was writing about my childhood, saying what I needed to say about Pooh and Christopher Robin. The present book is in a way a sequel, starting where the other left off. But, rather more than that, it is a complement, it is about the non-Pooh part of my life. It is an escape from Christopher Robin.'' Everyone who grows up within a family experiences the need to outgrow parents and teachers, to make a way of life that is his own, and to create his own circle of friends and family--however large or small. As a young man, Christopher Milne found himself seeking his own path through life against a background of two central experiences. The first was being A. A. Milne's son--which brought the peculiarly unique problem he describes so poignantly in his first book. The second was the war, in which he served in the Royal Engineers in North Africa and Italy. After the war, following some years of searching in London, Christopher Milne and his wife, Lesley, made their home and their career in Dartmouth, Devon, where they founded the Harbour Bookshop in 1951. The Path through the Trees is a moving account of a young man's search for his own identity. It offers a fascinating and affectionate account of a struggling (and later thriving) bookshop, and of the author's own family life in a small English country town. The path its author chose has not led him to a mountain top but it has taken courage to follow and has clearly brought him happiness. His achievement in this book is to tell the story of this journey simply, vividly, and often humorously. This audiobook is read by Peter Dennis, the actor who brought life to A. A. Milne's 'Pooh' stories and verses in various other works published by Blackstone Audio. A longtime friend of the Milne family, he made both this recording and The Enchanted Places as a gift for Clare Milne, Christopher Robin Milne's only child.

The Path Through the Trees

Physical description: 62 p.: ill.; 21 cm. Subjects: Adam (Biblical figure); Fiction. Eve (Biblical figure); Fiction. Fiction in English 1945 Texts. Genre: Fiction.

THE WINDFALL

'...in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.' The House at Pooh Corner. As an adult, Christopher Milne made every attempt to escape his father's fantasy world of Christopher Robin and Pooh. Despite a happy childhood in Sussex and London in the 1920s and 30s, as a young man he began to look on it as a burden. After experiencing what he describes as 'the Adventure' and 'the Horror' of World War 2, Milne still found it difficult to take the 'less trodden road' and find his own way. Eventually, in his later years, he turned his attention to contemplating the wasteful exploitation of the environment and produced a provocative treatise on humankind's duty to the natural world. Compiled by A.R. Melrose - editor of THE POOH BEDSIDE READER - from the four highly acclaimed volumes of Milne's autobiography, this is the extraordinarily candid and compelling self-portrait of a shy, unassuming man who, despite worldwide childhood fame, sought only a life of quiet anonymity beyond the world of Pooh.

Beyond the World of Pooh: Selections Form the Memoirs of Christopher Milne

Milne, Lesley

Melrose, A.R.

Christopher Milne was the world-famous son of A. A. Milne. This collection brings together passages from the four volumes of C. R. Milne's memoirs. Covering his much-publicized childhood, his war experiences, marriage, and proprietorship of a bookshop, this book presents an intriguing portrait of a gifted man. He chose to live simply--a choice that ultimately brought a happiness that could never come from the empty fame of being the real Christopher Robin.

Beyond the World of Pooh

The Enchanted Places: A Memoir of the Real Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh

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