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Title: Letters of E.B.White by E. B. White, Dorothy Lobrano Guth ISBN: 0-06-091517-X Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: February, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great collection of letters. Always inspires me to write.
Comment: E.B. White was a well known writer for The New Yorker, but I think his real genius was in writing letters to friends and family. He wrote about the ordinary and made it more than interesting, but fun. (His description of how to set up your room when admitted to the hospital is hysterical!) But he also wrote about hard times in life, his wife's illness, his own aging, death of friends and family. He wrote with honesty, clarity, and gusto. Letter writing (and READING a letter also) should never be a chore. Reading White's letters never is. I keep this book on the nightstand by my bed.
Rating: 4
Summary: Transparent writing at its best
Comment: Transparent writing consists of prose that doesn't tell; it is prose that shows. E. B. White is the master of this. His prose takes you where he wants you to be and, once there, shows you the sights, lets you smell the aromas and hear the sounds.
A modest man, E. B. White claims often that writing for him is difficult and painful. Yet this collection of letters shows that from the beginning, Elwyn Brooks White had an innate ability to write simply, clearly, and charmingly.
Whether he is thanking young readers for compliments, advising aspiring writers on writing, or berating a famous author for endorsing a product, he is witty, clear, and compassionate.
Reading these letters you will think, cry, laugh, and even wince, but you will not frown in confusion as you wonder what the writer is trying to say. As a very beneficial side effect, reading E. B. White will often improve your own writing.
Am I biased? You bet! Years of reading the stilted, jargon-laced writing of business, and the contrived, artificial efforts at "style" of many authors, reading anything by E. B. White is like talking to your best friend.
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Title: Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976 by E. B. White ISBN: 0060921234 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Essays of E. B. White by E. B. White ISBN: 0060932236 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: One Man's Meat by E. B. White, Roger Angell ISBN: 0884481921 Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Second Tree from the Corner by E. B. White ISBN: 0060153547 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: January, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Here Is New York by E. B. White, Roger Angell ISBN: 1892145022 Publisher: Little Bookroom Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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