Essays of E. B. White

Elwyn Brooks White was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist and author of such beloved children's classics as Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan. He graduated from Cornell University in 1921 and, five or six years later, joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine. He authored over seventeen books of prose and poetry and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973.White always said that he found writing difficult and bad for one's disposition.Mr. White has won countless awards, including the 1971 National Medal for Literature and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, which commended him for making “a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.”

出版者:Harper Perennial Modern Classics

作者:[美] 埃尔文·布鲁克斯·怀特

页数:364

出版时间:2006-12-12

价格:USD 14.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780060932237

图书标签:E.B.White随笔essays散文E-B-White英文原版文学美国

The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time.

读后感

昨天，在读E.B.Whihe的《the winter of the great snow》，我的书的封面不是这个，虽然也是essays of E.B.White，这篇文中的第二段里说， A fellow recently reported driving a stake into a snowbank,and when the point of the stake reached ground level it kept right on...  

Is there an essay called "The Hour of Letdown" in it?

如何定义作家呢？作家究竟是一群什么样的人？他们是否能看到我们所看不到的世界？他们是否活在我们世界之外？他们有着什么样光怪陆离的生活和曲折离奇的经历？有人说，不是每个人都能成为作家的，你得有运气、经历、生活，有犀利的眼和细腻的笔。他们并不全对。 我越来越感觉到...  

最早接触到白老师的文字当然是那本《夏洛的网》。小时候家里没什么书，碰到有字的东西就狂看。夹在《三国演义》和《新中国十大元帅》中看到那本书，一直以为就是一本儿童读物。上了大学才知道白老师的名字。我大学以前实在太无知了。 作为一名理科生，文学的门外汉，下面的内...  

如何定义作家呢？作家究竟是一群什么样的人？他们是否能看到我们所看不到的世界？他们是否活在我们世界之外？他们有着什么样光怪陆离的生活和曲折离奇的经历？有人说，不是每个人都能成为作家的，你得有运气、经历、生活，有犀利的眼和细腻的笔。他们并不全对。 我越来越感觉到...  

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五星推荐。最好的英文散文集，被引发了重读瓦尔登湖的愿望。

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris Wheel. 没想到真能读完，为自己喝彩：)农场部分质量绝高，篇篇“苍翠玲珑”。浣熊后腿、猪鬃毛、鸡蛋与鹅眼里是宇宙。诗、爱与锋芒毕露的讽刺居然共生。少年时羞涩却狂想，后期温和隽永也勘透世间难题，崇尚自然而不摒弃理性，嘲弄中有顽皮和温良，真是可爱的人。离开家的人就像龙虾蜕壳，猪疫与邻居晚餐的荒谬相撞，共通的痛苦，马戏之于年华就如planetary lights对combustion of stars. 果然你至少需要先写出这些，才能写出《夏洛的网》。（关于Ford那篇没看下来，毕竟我是直女啊。）p.s.词汇丰富句型多变生动形象情感充沛，提升写作水平再好不过！

翻译得一点也不让人失望。

可以一篇篇背下来的散文,natural candour is the basic ingredient for a congenitally self-centered essayist.

"And in every place he abandons he leaves something vital, and starts his new life somewhat less encrusted, like a lobster that has shed its skin and is for a time soft and vulnerable."每一个离开了自己熟悉的地方的人都不免会变得脆弱而柔软……看这句话感动死了虽然不知道为什么……