Writings from the New Yorker: 1925-1976

By E.B. White

Book Overview

Beautifully written, full of vitality, humor, love of life, and the free spirit, these short pieces and essays are classics to be read, savored, and read again. Here, in matchless style, E.B. White writes about everything from cicadaas to Khrushchev.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060165170
• ISBN13: 9780060165178
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers (1990).
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 6.1" x 1.1"

Customer Reviews

read it again--and again

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.

Writings from The New Yorker by E. B. White

I intend to have the very first item in this read at my memorial service - which I hope won't be soon! Some of this was slightly dated, but always good reading. He had such a unique take on his world and such a down-to-earth way of looking at the goings-on around him.

eclectic selection of his writings

This book is perfect for the business traveller. It is a quick read in part because the pieces are brief, and in part because of E.B. White's flawless command of the English language. The compilers of this anthology may not have a key to E.B. White's soul, as other reviewers expected, but why should that matter?