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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox book Four Days Wonder is a 1933 comedy novel by the British writer A.A. Milne.[1] Jenny, the heroine of the story, is an 18 year old orphan, who spends her life daydreaming. Her mind is occupied with an imaginary conversation when she absent-mindedly walks into her old home, now let to a respectable, middle-aged couple. Jenny finds, on the floor, the body of her long-lost Aunt Jane, and suddenly realises that she is in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Film adaptation

In 1936 it was adapted into a film of the same title by the American studio Universal Pictures. Directed by Sidney Salkow it starred Kenneth Howell, Martha Sleeper and Alan Mowbray.[2]

References

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Bibliography

  • Cohen, Nadia. The Extraordinary Life of A. A. Milne. Grub Street Publishers, 2017.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Haring-Smith, Tori. A.A. Milne: A Critical Bibliography. Garland, 1982.
  • Shaw, Bruce. Jolly Good Detecting: Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age. McFarland, 2013.


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  1. Shaw p.90
  2. Goble p.327