Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976
by E. B. White
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Author: E. B. WhiteEditor: Rebecca M. Dale
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-07
ISBN: 0060921234
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Summary: 5 Stars
I say, and not for the first time or after reading his first book (I've read them all, again and again) that anyone who wants to learn to write contemporary English as it should be written should close himself in a room with EB White for as long as it takes. He or she might even learn to be a better person from the example.
Summary of Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976
A delightful, witty, spirited collection of short pieces and essays by the inimitable E. B. White.Three years after E. B. White's death, Rebecca Dale discovered a cache of his New Yorker writings that had yet to be collected. There's certainly nothing mediocre about these 161 pieces, which range from nature vignettes (a New York City sparrow extols urban life) to musings on language, business, and liberty. White's 1953 fantasia of visiting Thoreau's Walden Pond with Joseph McCarthy is peerless. "Wait a minute!" the senator realizes. "This man was Communist-inspired. That accounts for his sour attitude about housing--" The satire is strong, but so is the celebration. A short piece on a skating fest ends: "Ice is an odd substance to have at last freed the body in its persistent attempt to catch up with the spirit." And speaking of which, in "Fred On Space" White asks his dead dachshund how he feels about the first dog launched by the Russians. Fred is far from impressed: "The excuse you men give is that you must continually add to the store of human knowledge--a store that already resembles a supermarket and is beginning to hypnotize the customers."
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