The story of Charlotte's web : E.B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic / Michael Sims.
Sims, Michael, 1958-
2011
PS3545.H5187 Z925 2011 (Mapit)
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Title The story of Charlotte's web : E.B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic / Michael Sims.
Author Sims, Michael, 1958-
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN 9780802777546
0802777546
Publication Details New York : Walker & Co., 2011.
Language English
Description viii, 307 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number PS3545.H5187 Z925 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 818/.5209 B
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographic references (p. [251]-296) and index.
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pt. I. Elwyn. Enchanted
Fear
Trustworthy
A writing fool
Liebesträum
pt. II. Andy. Olympus
Interview with a sparrow
Crazy
As spiders do
pt. III. Charlotte. Dream farm
The mouse of thought
Foreknowledge
Zuckerman's barn
Spinningwork
Paean
Some book
Completion
Coda. After Charlotte.

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