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Letters of E.B. White, originally collected and edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth ; revised and updated by Martha White ; foreword by John Updike

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Letters of E.B. White

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originally collected and edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth ; revised and updated by Martha White ; foreword by John Updike

Originally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, and revised and updated by Martha White. With a foreword by John Updike. These letters are, of course, beautifully written but above all personal, precise, and honest. They evoke E.B. White<U+2019>s life in New York and in Maine at every stage of his life. They are full of memorable characters: White<U+2019>s family, the New Yorker staff and contributors, literary types and show business people, farmers from Maine and sophisticates from New York-Katherine S. White, Harold Ross, James Thurber, Alexander Woolcott, Groucho Marx, John Updike, and many, many more. Each decade has its own look and taste and feel. Places, too-from Belgrade (Maine) to Turtle Bay (NYC) to the S.S. Buford, Alaska-bound in 1923-are brought to life in White<U+2019>s descriptions. There is no other book of letters to compare with this; it is a book to treasure and savor at one<U+2019>s leisure

Mount Vernon, 1908-1917 -- Cornell and the open road, 1917-1925 -- The New Yorker : early days, 1926-1928 -- "The most beautiful decision, " 1929-1930 -- 16 East 8th Street, 1931-1936 -- One man's meat, 1937-1941 -- The war years, 1942-1945 -- A party of one, 1946-1949 -- Turtle Bay, 1950-1951 -- Charlotte's Web, 1952-1954 -- Will Strunk's little book, 1955-1959 -- Letters from the east, 1960-1965 -- The trumpet of the swan, 1966-1970 -- In the lee of the barn, 1971-1976 -- Good-bye to Katherine, 1977-1981 -- E.B. White, a biography, 1982-1985

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