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 ...
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.”
"And in every place he abandons he leaves something vital, it seems to me, and starts his new life somewhat less encrusted, like a lobster that has shed its skin and is for a time soft and vulnerable." (查看原文)
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. -- E.B. White 终于在这本书里读完了Here is New York. New York is not a capital city. It is not a n...
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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...
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics2006版
0 有用 Becca 2011-01-26 06:24:16
在旧书店淘到的二手
0 有用 李镜合 2021-05-20 06:35:59
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1 有用 Hazel 2017-07-16 13:14:58
真的是最优美的英文写作者 跨越语言和词汇的障碍 还能感受一样的情感和美好
0 有用 Undr 2019-02-27 17:48:40
借阅时间有限，挑着几篇看了。基本都是生活化的内容，没有看见文学评论，阅读起来更为容易。E.B.White的散文都有着诗性与现实很好的平衡，社会性思考的引发简短而又自然。