The story of Charlotte's Web : E.B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic / Michael Sims.
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring book, E. B. White was obeying the maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats--White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It is all the more impressive, therefore, how many people have felt a kinship with E. B. White. In this book the author shows how White solved what critic Clifton Fadiman once called "the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole" by mining the raw ore of his childhood friendship with animals, translating his own passions and contradictions, delights and fears, into an all time classic.--From publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802777546
- ISBN: 0802777546
- Physical Description: viii, 307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First United States edition
- Publisher: New York : Walker & Co., 2011.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 251-296) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Part 1 Elwyn -- Chapter 1 Enchanted 9 -- Chapter 2 Fear 19 -- Chapter 3 Trustworthy 33 -- Chapter 4 A Writing Fool 42 -- Chapter 5 Liebesträum 55 -- Part II Andy -- Chapter 6 Olympus 69 -- Chapter 7 Interview with a Sparrow 86 -- Chapter 8 Crazy 96 -- Chapter 9 As Spiders Do 106 -- Part III Charlotte -- Chapter 10 Dream Farm 127 -- Chapter 11 Mouse of Thought 143 -- Chapter 12 Foreknowledge 157 -- Chapter 13 Zuckerman's Barn 169 -- Chapter 14 Spinningwork 175 -- Chapter 15 Paean 189 -- Chapter 16 Some Book 208 -- Chapter 17 Completion 226.
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.8 12 147147.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville Main Library | BIO WHITE (Text) | 36015000615316 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
