He made his home in Vienna, and set out on a career of creative industry which soon broke him down, and sent him to a premature grave. Edited by Cliff Eisen and translated from the German by Stewart Spencer. The Oshawa Generals picked Tom McCarthy. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928).