- Mystery and detective stories, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, England, fiction
This is probably one of the top classics of "golden age" detective fiction. Anyone who's read any mystery novels at all will be familiar with the tropes -- an English country house in the first half of the twentieth century, a locked room, a dead body, an amateur sleuth, a helpful sidekick, and all the rest.
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Classical in form, resolved, intimate and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- A. A. Milne
- First published
- 1922
- Pages
- 211
- Publisher
- Kessinger Publishing, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
- Editions
- 71
- Language
- hun, Spanish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9781434618207
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“In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta.”
A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London and went to school at a small independent school run by his father, John Vine Milne. He went to Westminster School and studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was married in 1913, and then joined the British Army in World War I. In 1920, his son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born. In 1925, Milne moved to a country home called Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex. Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne's most famous work, was published in 1926. Although he had his greatest success with his books for children, he stopped writing works for children by the end of the decade, saying that the source of his inspiration for children's stories, his son, had g
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