E. B. White
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Thirty-one of E.B. White's essays grouped under such headings as "The Farm," "The Planet," "Memories," and "Books, Men, and Writing."
"When E.B. White received the Gold Medal for Essays and Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the following citation, here quoted in part, accompanied the award: 'If we are remembered as a civilized era, I think it will be partly because of E.B. White. The historians of the future will decide that...
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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,...
3) On democracy
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English
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"Anchored by an introduction by Jon Meacham, this concise collection of essays, letters, and poems from one of this country's most eminent literary voices sheds much-needed historical context on the state of the nation and offers a ray of hope for the future of our society; for "as long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman...the scene is not desolate.""--
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Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and the New Yorker called it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city."Included with this essay are two short poems by E. B. White: "Commuter"...
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E. B. White is best known for his children's books, such as Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan. A columnist for the New Yorker for over half a century and coauthor of 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,...
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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,...
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English
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Over the years, generations of college students and writers have learned the basics of grammar from this little book. Enchancements from the editor of this edition include notes throughout the book to alert readers to grammar rules which are now regarded as obsolete. The editor's new forward provides a quick overview of why a knowledge of grammar is essential today. It also offers insights into several key points mentioned only briefly in the original...
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Harper & Row
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English
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A collection of eighteen essays, reports and reminiscences (all but one of which have previously appeared in The New Yorker as a "Letter from the East" or some other compass point). Author writes of coons, and how a swallow builds a nest, and the way a Maine fire department attends a fire, and also of fallout, disarmament and the United Nations.
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HarperCollins
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c1999
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English
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On cover: "The many characters of Charlotte's Web have enchanted readers for generations with their unique perspectives on life. In this engaging collection of excerpts and quotations, Wilbur, Charlotte, Templeton, and all their barnyard friends share humorous life lessons, observations, and truths both on and off the farm."
