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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6 有用 小鹿想念书 2016-08-10 18:02:54
可以一篇篇背下来的散文,natural candour is the basic ingredient for a congenitally self-centered essayist.
0 有用 Jule 2012-11-20 11:59:16
上次对“Bedfellows”和“Death of a Pig”印象深.... Eloquence without affectation, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility
2 有用 野田小波 2016-09-20 23:22:04
琐事也能写出美感。大写的服气。
0 有用 狸猫 2013-05-29 19:35:56
《回家》一文极赞！好的散文集真是比小说读起来还带劲儿。
0 有用 悬浮的毛绒馅饼 2021-06-19 22:28:34
很难读好。讲农场生活的不错，猪猪鹅鹅熊熊，也 好读。后面那个百极旅行的也不错。中间那几个写城市生活的是真的烦，纽约爬