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Title: Essays of E. B. White by E. B. White ISBN: 0-06-093223-6 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Masterful and wonderful and delightful
Comment: Too bad there is/was only one E. B. White; too bad he couldn't have lived for ever. He will always remain as one of the best American essayists while at the same time continuing to earn acclaim for several other books that will always stay in print: childhood classics Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, as well as the newer edition of Elements of Style.
But his essays! Oh, they are so good, so rambling and thoughtful and gently pointed, many humorous while still making a deep and important impression. Anyone who strives to write good prose must read these essays to find out how a master did it and made it look easy. The first one in this volume, Death of a Pig, could serve as a lesson in How to Write.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Writer's Model
Comment: And even if you aren't a "writer's writer" or a literature type, you will appreciate this collection. It will mostly make you wish we still had White. His "This is New York" is astonishing if only for its timeliness. In fact last September 11th I posted the an excerpt from it on one of my discussion groups. If you are an American Studies type, especially -- meaning that you are interested in what our culture looked like and cared about in the middle of this century -- this is the place to start.
Rating: 4
Summary: Awesome
Comment: E.B. White's essays astounded me. My English teacher recommended them. I wasn't expecting prose of such rural vitality and simplicity. The group of essays under The Farm heading are a cry against urbanity. Instead of viewing everything as a commodity, he whispers emphatically a la Stein, "a rose is a rose is a rose." Throughout he has an eye for the sublimely trivial and the transcendence of Nature. Modernity is as barren as its aseptic kitchen counters.
The Thoreau influence is quite obvious, except for the causticity and spirituality which hasn't entered White's writing.
There is also the same sense of loss as in Thoreau's A Week...But it is a sense of loss with a quiet humanity that mitigates the seriousness. He doesn't avoid painful issues, unusual in our society.
He also never gets caught up in the wrongness of the world. At his most vituperative he is like a father correcting a wayward son. There is much to be learned from his simple yet profound wisdom. Excellent writing that I would recommend for anyone that reads.
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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: Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence ISBN: 0140183779 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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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: 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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Title: Letters of E.B.White by E. B. White, Dorothy Lobrano Guth ISBN: 006091517X Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: February, 1989 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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