A. A. Milne

Un poco de la vida de A. A. Milne, autor de Winnie-the-Pooh. ¿Sabías que consideró traidor a P. G. Wodehouse por hacer transmisiones de radio desde Berlín y que usó el nombre de su hijo como protagonista de su libro más conocido?

También ponemos unos párrafos increíbles de su Peace with Honour, en los que Milne da una demostración de su talento con las palabras.

Al final la batalla del Somme, en la Primera Guerra Mundial, y la biografía del autor en un video muy interesante…

 

La fuerza aplicada llevó directamente a la matanza de 10 millones de hombres que no eran archiduques, y, directa o indirectamente, a la muerte de miles de mujeres y niños. Aun…

The Red House Mystery

The Red House Mystery es la única novela de misterio de A. A. Milne, publicada en 1922. Por suerte podemos leerla en la red, en inglés, sin pagar un solo peso. En estos párrafos las empleadas discuten sobre la llegada de un hermano desde Australia, del que no tenían idea que existía.

Buscamos sobre parlour-maid y encontramos palabras relacionadas como laundry, ironing, cleaning the house, grocery shopping, cooking, y caring for household pets. En vocabulario esta palabra se nos hizo difícil: arst. Fijáte…

 

“I’ve been here five years, and never heard of a brother. I could say that before everybody if I was going to die to-morrow. There’s been no brother here while I’ve been here.”…

Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh apareció en 1926 y fue seguida por The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Winnie-the-Pooh es un osito de peluche que adquiere vida, creado por el autor inglés A. A. Milne. Winnie-the-Pooh ha sido traducido a muchos idiomas, incluyendo el latín. Los cuatro volúmenes de la serie han sido ilustrados por E. H. Shepard.

If you happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may remember that he once had a swan (or the swan had Christopher Robin, I don't know which) and that he used to call this swan Pooh. That was a long time ago, and when we said good-bye, we took the name with us, as we didn't think the swan would want it any more. Well, when Edward Bear said that he would like an exciting name all to himself, Christopher Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that he was Winnie-the-Pooh. And he was. So, as I have explained the Pooh part, I will now explain the rest of it.

You can't be in London for long without going to the Zoo. There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there. So when Christopher Robin goes to the Zoo, he goes to where the Polar Bears are, and he whispers something to the third keeper from the left, and doors are unlocked, and we wander through dark passages and up steep stairs, until at last we come to the special cage, and the cage is opened, and out trots something brown and furry, and with a happy cry of "Oh, Bear!" Christopher Robin rushes into its arms. Now this bear's name is Winnie, which shows what a good name for bears it is, but the funny thing is that we can't remember whether Winnie is called after Pooh, or Pooh after Winnie. We did know once, but we have forgotten. . . .