NonfictionLarge Print EditionIn print for fifty-five years, One Mans Meat continues to delight readers with E.B. Whites 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 Mans Meat can best be described as a primer of a countrymans lessons a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out of style.
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A classic that actually lives up the the word "poignant":
E. B. White's essays are sweet and courageous. It's a rare and wonderful combination. They are also, to use that severely abused word, poignant, which means, painfully affecting the feelings. Consider the opening line to the essay, World War I: "I keep forgetting that soldiers are so young." He wrote that line in 1939. I think of that every day in the context of Iraq and Afghanistan. One Man's Meat, first published in 1942, is the companion volume to the Essays of E. B. White. Both books include his... more info
AMERICA'S ESSAYIST:
E. B. White's One Man's Meat is an ode to life in the country, a reflection of the author's unease with various aspects associated with modern life, and a prelude to the years of "the second war for democracy." The book contains the essays written during White's five years with Harper's Magazine (1938 - 1943), a time White referred to as "one of the most productive periods of my life." Despite his move to Maine, White was not, in the strict sense, a farmer: instead, he owned what he often called "a... more info
A Charming Timely Classic:
For the grown ups who enjoyed reading Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little to their kids. This is the best clearist writing by the master of the short essay. He gives us pride in the values he holds and lives. A national treasure.
A simpler time...:
Once upon a time i belonged to a book club. This was one of our choices. I have been trying to pull out fragments of memory. What i recall most fondly is that E.B. White's observations were tinted with a certain innocence. Why did we become so jaded? The last 50 years have brought along a heightened level of cynicism, and it was refreshing to read a grown man's slightly naïve comments.
At the same time, after a while I became a bit bored with the simplistic remarks of life in the country. My own... more info
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