New York Sketches (eBook)

E.B. White (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
224 Seiten
McNally Editions (Verlag)
978-1-946022-74-5 (ISBN)

Infos

E. B. White's greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly.Over more than fifty years at the New Yorker, E. B. White came to define a kind of ideal American prose: clear, casual, democratic, and urbane. He also did more than any writer to define his favorite city. His classic Here Is New York captured a moment in the life of Manhattan with precision and lovebut his was no fleeting infatuation. In New York Sketches, the first collection of his casual pieces about the city, White ranges at whim from the nesting habits of pigeons to the aisles of a calculator trade-show on Eighth Avenue, from the behavior of snails in aquariums to the ghosts of old romance that haunt a flower shop or a fire escape or an old hotel. These sketches, some less than a page long, many written for a laugh, or in response to the news of the day, show us White at his most playful and inventive. New York Sketches is a welcome diversion for every New Yorkernative, adoptive, or far from homeand a perfect introduction, not only to what White called ';the inscrutable and lovely town,' but to the everyday enchantments of one of her fondest reporters.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.12.2024
• Vorwort: Martha White
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Reisen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: American Humor • A Subtreasury of American Humor • Best American Essays • books about new york city • Bronx • Brooklyn • Charlotte's Web • Elements of Style • funny essay collections • garth williams • Goodbye to All That • Henry David Thoreau • Here Is New York • James Thurber • Joan Didion • Katherine Angell • Katherine Sergeant Angell • Lucy Sante Low Life • Manhattan • Mark Twain • New York City • New Yorker • new yorker writers • New York essays • New York nonfiction • Points of My Compass • Presidential Medal of Freedom • Pulitzer Prize • strunk and white • Stuart Little • the elements of style • The Trumpet of the Swan • Trumpet of the Swan • Up in the Old Hotel • William Strunk Jr.
• ISBN-10: 1-946022-74-8 / 1946022748
• ISBN-13: 978-1-946022-74-5 / 9781946022745