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.
Funnily enough for such a famous writer, he always said that he found writing difficult and bad for one's disposition but he kept at it!
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.”
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 has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.
E.B. White's underground classic, and one of the most beautifully written, accurate portrayals of the world's most diverse and interesting city.
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門口有一隻蜘蛛,老是喜歡在那裏織網。可是我怨他織錯瞭地方,毀掉它的網,因為他擋瞭我的門口,阻擾我的進齣。但蜘蛛卻不屈不撓,一而再再而三的織它的網,但最終都毀在我手裏。作為人,我為瞭自己無煩擾,隻能舉起掃帚;作為蜘蛛,我覺得值得敬佩。因為網是蜘蛛的一切。 今...
評分New York City, here is New York. It is a city of isolation, a city of loneliness and most importantly a city of tolerance. Gone are the old days. Just like what Maugham said, some people are always looking for their final destination. It's a curse, and a ...
評分如果紐約人對53年前寫就的《這就是紐約》末尾的預言持有畏懼,911是否還會發生。 E.B.懷特1948年在這本隨筆中寫道:“在所有可能發動襲擊的狂人的頭腦中,紐約無疑有著持久的、不可抵擋的誘惑力”。“人人嘴上不講,但心裏明白,這座城市,在它漫長的曆史上,第一次有...
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But New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience—if they did they would live elsewhere.
評分New Yorkers都未必能完全領會,何況outsiders
評分地鐵上,公車上,候機室,候診室,今天看書的時間真不少。讀瞭兩遍,想瞭很久。
評分But the city makes up for its hazards and its deficiencies by supplying its citizens with massive doses of a supplementary vitamin--the sense of belonging to something unique, cosmopolitan, mighty and unparalleled. 手抄或者熟讀都不為過,寫得太美。
評分“Many of its settlers are probably here merely to escape, not face, reality."
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