Milne turns his attention to whatever is at hand: golf and goldfish, superstitions and thermometers, his own library, a day at Lord’s, the diary habit, smoking as a fine art and the happiest half-hours of life. Each essay runs a few pages of amiable argument, mock-serious and quietly funny.
Published in 1919, years before Winnie-the-Pooh, these essays show Milne at his most companionable. Download the free EPUB.