Essays Of E B White

Author : E. B. White
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780062348753

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Essays of E. B. White by E. B. White Pdf

"Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White's style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White's creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities." — Washington Post The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time. Selected by E.B. White himself, the essays in this volume span a lifetime of writing and a body of work without peer. "I have chosen the ones that have amused me in the rereading," he writes in the Foreword, "alone with a few that seemed to have the odor of durability clinging to them." These essays are incomparable; this is a volume to treasure and savor at one's leisure.

Author : E. B. White
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781590174791

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Here is New York by E. B. White Pdf

In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author’s stroll around Manhattan—with the reader arm-in-arm—remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. Here is New York has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. The New Yorker calls it “the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.”

Author : E. B. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1684751152

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One Man's Meat by E. B. White Pdf

In print for fifty-five years, One Man's Meat continues to delight readers with E.B. White's witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm.

Author : Martha White
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780884483465

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E.B. White on Dogs by Martha White Pdf

E. B. White (1899 1985) is best known for his children's books, Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan. Columnist for The New Yorker for over half a century and co-author of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, White hit his stride as an American literary icon when he began publishing his 'One Man's Meat' columns from his saltwater farm on the coast of Maine. In E. B. White on Dogs, his granddaughter and manager of his literary estate, Martha White, has compiled the best and funniest of his essays, poems, letters, and sketches depicting over a dozen of White's various canine companions. Featured here are favorite essays such as 'Two Letters, Both Open,' where White takes on the Internal Revenue Service, and also 'Bedfellows,' with its 'fraudulent reports'; from White's ignoble old dachshund, Fred. ('I just saw an eagle go by. It was carrying a baby.') From The New Yorker's 'The Talk of the Town' are some little-known Notes and Comment pieces covering dog shows, sled dog races, and the trials and tribulations of city canines, chief among them a Scotty called Daisy who was kicked out of Schrafft's, arrested, and later run down by a Yellow Cab, prompting The New Yorker to run her 'Obituary.' Some previously unpublished photographs from the E. B. White Estate show the family dogs, from the first collie, to various labs, Scotties, dachshunds, half-breeds, and mutts, all well-loved. This is a book for readers and writers who recognize a good sentence and a masterful turn of a phrase; for E. B. White fans looking for more from their favorite author; and for dog lovers who may not have discovered the wit, style, and compassion of this most distinguished of American essayists.

Author : David R. Collins
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0876143451

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To the Point by David R. Collins Pdf

Follows the life of the popular author of essays, poems, and children's books, from his childhood in rural New York State to his death at the age of eighty-six.

Author : Elwyn Brooks White
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39076001246334

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The Points of My Compass by Elwyn Brooks White Pdf

Author : E. B. White
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780062345486

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Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976 by E. B. White Pdf

Here are 161 wise, witty, and spirited short pieces and essays by the inimitable E. B. White. Written for the New Yorker over a span of forty-nine years, they show White’s changing concerns and development as a writer. In matchless style White writes about everything from cicadas to Khrushchev, from Thoreau to hyphens, from academic freedom to lipstick, from New York garbagemen to the sparrow, from Maine to the space age, from the Constitution to Harold Ross and even the common cold. White has been described by one critic as “our finest essayist,” and these short pieces and essays are classics to be read, savored, and read again. Also included are an Introduction and Selective Bibliography by Rebecca M. Dale.

Author : Robert L. Root
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0877456674

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E.B. White by Robert L. Root Pdf

Robert Root explores the milieu in which White began writing the "Notes and Comments" section of the New Yorker and puts in perspective the influence of popular "colyumists" like Don Marquis and Christopher Morley on the tone and form of White's work as a "paragrapher." He examines White's persistent disaffection with the demands and limitations inherent in his "Comment" pieces for the New Yorker and his experiences as a columnist for Harper's Magazine, where his "One Man's Meat" feature produced his most enduring essay, "Once More to the Lake," and took the segmented column form to new levels of accomplishment. Drawing on White's manuscripts, Root's literary analysis of early drafts demonstrates how unique White's essays were.

Author : E. B. White
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062408211

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Stuart Little by E. B. White Pdf

The classic story by E. B. White, author of the Newbery Honor Book Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan, about one small mouse on a very big adventure. Now available as an ebook! Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure. Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, disappears from her nest. Determined to track her down, Stuart ventures away from home for the very first time in his life. He finds adventure aplenty. But will he find his friend? Stuart Little joins E. B. White favorites Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan as classic illustrated novels that continue to speak to today's readers. Whether you curl up with your young reader to share these books or hand them off for independent reading, you are helping to create what are likely to be all-time favorite reading memories.

Author : Elwyn Brooks White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : American essays
ISBN : LCCN:77177536

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Essays of E. B. White by Elwyn Brooks White Pdf

Author : Melissa Sweet
Publisher : Clarion Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0544319591

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Some Writer! by Melissa Sweet Pdf

In this stunning, first-ever fully-illustrated biography of legendary author E.B. White, Sibert medalist and Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet uses White's letters, photos, and mementos, as well as her original collaged art, to tell the true story of one of the most beloved authors of all time.

Author : Elwyn Brooks White
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0060906065

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Letters of E.B. White by Elwyn Brooks White Pdf

Letters of E.B. White touches on a wide variety of subjects, including the New Yorker editor who became the author's wife; their dachshund, Fred, with his "look of fake respectability"; and White's contemporaries, from Harold Ross and James Thurber to Groucho Marx and John Updike and, later, Senator Edmund S. Muskie and Garrison Keillor. Updated with newly released letters from 1976 to 1985, additional photographs, and a new foreword by John Updike, this unparalleled collection of letters from one of America's favorite essayists, poets, and storytellers now spans nearly a century, from 1908 to 1985. Book jacket.

Author : E. B. White,Richard Lee Strout
Publisher : Little Bookroom
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015059984966

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Farewell to Model T by E. B. White,Richard Lee Strout Pdf

In 1922, just out of college and at loose ends, E. B. White set off across America in his Model T. He left his map at home, but packed his typewriter and dictionary--his true destination, he tells us, was the world of letters. Along the way, he also discovered America: "My own vision of the land--my own discovery of it--was shaped, more than by any other instrument, by a Model T Ford...a slow-motion roadster of miraculous design--strong, tremulous, and tireless, from sea to shining sea." White first wrote about the flivver in "Farewell to Model T," which appeared in theNew Yorkerin 1936. Rich in comic descriptions of the T's many eccentricities and the absurd demands it put on its devoted owners, this was the first of White's essays to bring him fame. It is here published for the first time with "From Sea to Shining Sea," in which he conjures the backroads and main streets of an unspoiled America. Together, these essays are an affectionate tribute to the car that holds a mythic place in the American imagination.

Author : E. B. White
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780801463662

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In the Words of E. B. White by E. B. White Pdf

"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a world war."—E. B. White on fatherhood "I was lucky to be born abnormal. It ran in the family."—on luck "I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else." —on Maine "The English language is always sticking a foot out to trip a man."—on language The author of Charlotte's Web and One Man's Meat, coauthor of The Elements of Style, and columnist for The New Yorker for almost half a century, E. B. White (1899–1985) is an American literary icon. Over the course of his career, White inspired generations of writers and readers with his essays (both serious and humorous), children's literature, and stylistic guidance. In the Words of E. B. White offers readers a delightful selection of quotations, selected and annotated by his granddaughter and literary executor, Martha White. The quotations cover a wide range of subjects and situations, from Automobiles, Babies, Bees, City Life, and College to Spiders, Taxes, Weather, Work, and Worry. E. B. White comments on writing for children, how to tell a major poet from a minor one, and what to do when one becomes hopelessly mired in a sentence. White was apt to address the subject of security by speaking first about a Ferris wheel at the local county fair, or the subject of democracy from the perspective of roofing his barn and looking out across the bay—he had a gift for bringing the abstract firmly into the realm of the everyday. Included here are gems from White's books and essay collections, as well as bits from both published and unpublished letters and journals. This is a book for readers and writers, for those who know E. B. White from his "Notes and Comment" column in The New Yorker, have turned to The Elements of Style for help in crafting a polished sentence, or have loved a spider's assessment of Wilbur as "Some Pig." This distillation of the wit, style, and humanity of one of America's most distinguished essayists of the twentieth century will be a welcome addition to any reader's bookshelf.

Author : Katharine S. White,Katharine Sergeant Angell White
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0807085618

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Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katharine S. White,Katharine Sergeant Angell White Pdf

In 1958, Katherine White, a writer for "The New Yorker, " published a series of 14 gardening pieces. Posthumously collected by her husband, "Charlotte's Web" author E.B. White, "Onward and Upward in the Garden" is "more than a book about flowers; it is itself a bouquet, the final blooming of an extraordinary sensibility" ("The New York Times").