Winnie ille Pu

Paperback, 148 pages

Latin language

Published Jan. 6, 1987 by E P Dutton.

ISBN:
978-0-525-48335-9
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OCLC Number:
25029253

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First time in paperback!

By now the publishing history of Winnie Ille Pu is one of the most famous in all of publishing annals: how a privately printed Latin translation of A. A. Milne's Winnie the pooh, originally issued in a three-hundred-copy edition. eventually became the only book in Latin ever to grace The New Times best-seller list. Now the Latin Winnie is here in paperback to bring delight to linguistically minded readers of all ages.

Born in Budapest in 1910, Alexander Lenard was a graduate of the famous Theresianum in Vienna. A refugee . from Hitler who migrated to Brazil by way of Rome, he worked variously as a pharmacist, math teacher, quiz show contestant, farmer, painter, poet, and pianist as well as, of course, a translator. At the time of his death in 1972 he was fluent in twelve languages. Winnie Ille Pu was the product of over …

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Subjects

  • Juvenile fiction
  • Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character)