Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read Not That It Matters on EtoBox?

Not That It Matters by Milne, Alan Alexander is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Not That It Matters about?

The creator of Winnie-the-Pooh shares his musings on some of the matters of his day in this delightful collection of essays, short stories, and poems. Not That It Matters is “a collection of essays from the end of that extraordinary silver age of English belles-lettres at the turn of the last century, when men such as Shaw and Belloc earned their daily bread by scribbling in newspapers and magazines about anything they could scrape a thousand or so words out of: socialism, dogs, the weather, how they celebrated Christmas, capital punishment, Wagner. For those who like this sort of thing, this volume is very nearly perfect. There are pieces on snobbery, oranges, cricket, bad fiction, ‘Smoking as a Fine Art’ (‘My first introduction to Lady Nicotine was at the innocent age of eight’), chess, thermometers, Holy Writ (‘Isaiah was the ideal author. . . . He kept to one style’), and—prophetically—those bores who fetishize ‘good brown ale’” ( National Review ). “Milne writes on goldfish, daffodils, writing personal diaries, the charm of lunch, intellectual snobbery, and even what property program presenters would now call ‘kerb appeal’—but which was simply ‘looking at the outside of a hou

Who reads Not That It Matters?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Milne, Alan Alexander
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9781504060981
Category
history
Subjects
History, Humanities
Rating
3.94 / 5 (60 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

More by Milne, Alan Alexander

Browse all works by Milne, Alan Alexander

Similar books