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Sto caricando le informazioni... One Man's Meat (1942)di E. B. White
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book was written during WWII, E.B. White and his wife have moved to Maine and they are breeding chickens. My favorite essay, and one I read over and over is entitled Spring and is on page 231. This essay is why E.B. White became my favorite American writer. I love Twain too, but in a different way. I wish E.B. White had been my father. There is so much of hope and good sense in the man. ( ) After White (mostly) left The New Yorker magazine in the late 1930s, he took up writing a column for Harper's (the column shares the name with this book), and farmed on the side. Or, judging from this book, he took up farming and wrote on the side. White occasionally, and ruefully, admits he's not quite sure which is which. Generally low-key and pleasant observations of rural Maine in the late 1930s and early 1940s. This particular edition came out in the middle of the war, and includes a number of chapters written after the outbreak of the war. Excellent collection of essays, primarily in Harpers and a couple or three from The New Yorker, from the immediate pre-war and early WW2 era (July 1938 through January 1942). White's life as a salt water farmer – actually and more precisely, as a "gentleman farmer" – in Maine, but with substantial digressions to nearly everything under the sun, including White's "world federalism" and his sometimes conflicting thoughts on the New Deal. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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For over fifty years, One Man's Meat has continued to delight readers with E. B. White's witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm. Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man's Meat can best be described as a primer of a countryman's lessons and a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out of style. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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