书名：Essays of E. B. White怀特散文集
作者：E. B. White E. B.怀特
出版社名称：Harper Perennial Modern Classics
出版时间：1999
语种：英文
ISBN：9780060932237
商品尺寸：13.5 x 2.2 x 20.3 cm
包装：平装
页数：364 （以实物为准）

E·B·怀特，美国当代散文家、评论家，《纽约客》文风的奠定者，除了创作大家所熟知的经典童话Charlotte's Web《夏洛的网》外，“随笔”可谓其终生挚爱！怀特在散文创作方面的成就非常大，被称为二十世纪伟大的美国随笔作家，本书收录了怀特的31篇经典散文名篇，适合有一定英文水平的散文爱好者、英语学习者阅读。
推荐理由：
1.美国一代文宗E.B.怀特散文选集，包含Here is New York《这就是纽约》、Once More to the Lake《重游缅湖》等佳作，不可不读；
2.怀特的文风别具一格，韵味无穷，《纽约客》前总编威廉•肖恩评价其风格“它是独特的、口语化的、清晰的、自然的、完全美国式的、非常美的，他的人长生不老，他的文字跨越时空”。
3.语言真诚直白，节奏缓慢，文字间弥漫着淡然安静但又不乏幽默，值得细细品味；
4.用词准确，文字优美，阅读难度适中，对英语写作、翻译有较大帮助。
Critical Praise
“Anything written by E. B. White must be cherished by writers and readers.”—NEW YORK TIMES
“His voice rumbles with authority through sentences of surpassing grace. In his more than fifty years atThe New Yorker, White set a standard of writerly craft for that supremely well-wrought magazine. In genial, perfectly poised essay after essay, he has wielded the English language with as much clarity and control as any American of his time.” —NEWSWEEK
“Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White’s style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White’s creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities.”—WASHINGTON POST
“The abiding spirit of these essays is humane, compassionate, traditionalistic. No matter what his subject, White always keeps his eye on the long view and the larger perspective. There are times when I feel his work is as much a national resource as the Liberty Bell, a call to the best and noblest in us.”—SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

Essays of E. B. White《E.B.怀特散文集》收录了美国散文大家E.B.怀特的重要随笔作品，书中的文章皆由作者本人选定，内容多以日常生活中所见所闻的趣事为主,就如其所说“散文创作之人乃自我解束之人，通常怀揣孩童般天真的念想，认为其所想所遇之事皆情趣盎然。如遛鸟之人自娱自乐，其工作之时乐在其中。每一次崭新的创作之旅，皆为有别于前一次的全新的‘尝试’，将其领入全新的天地，令其心花怒放。唯有天生孤芳自赏之人，才能拥有果敢与耐性，撰写散文。”目前，国内中文版分为两卷出版：《这就是纽约》与《重游缅湖》，而本书则囊括了这两卷书中的所有作品，细分为The Farm《农场》、The Planet《大地》、The City《城市》、Florida《佛罗里达》、Memories《回忆》、Diversions And Obsessions《消遣与癖好》与Books, Men, And Writing《书、人与写作》七部分。
The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time.
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. He is a fellow who thoroughly enjoys his work, just as people who take bird walks enjoy theirs. Each new excursion of the essayist, each new “attempt,” differs from the last and takes him into new country. This delights him. Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.

E.B.怀特（1899-1985），美国当代散文家、评论家，以散文名世，“其文风冷峻清丽，辛辣幽默，自成一格”。生于纽约蒙特弗农，毕业于康奈尔大学。作为《纽约客》主要撰稿人的怀特一手奠定了影响深远的“《纽约客》文风”。他还为孩子们写了三本书：《精灵鼠小弟》《夏洛的网》与《吹小号的天鹅》，同样成为儿童与成人共同喜爱的文学经典。
E. B. White, the author of twenty books of prose and poetry, was awarded the 1970 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for his children’s books,Stuart LittleandCharlotte’s Web. This award is now given every three years “to an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have, over a period of years, make a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.” The year 1970 also marked the publication of Mr. White’s third book for children, The Trumpet of the Swan, honored by The International Board on Books for Young People as an outstanding example of literature with international importance. In 1973, it received the Sequoyah Award (Oklahoma) and the William Allen White Award (Kansas), voted by the school children of those states as their “favorite book” of the year.

Foreword前言
Acknowledgements鸣谢
The Farm农场
Good-Bye to Forty-Eighth Street告别四十八街
Home-Coming回家
A Report in Spring春天的报告
Death of a Pig一头猪的死亡
The Eye of Edna飓风之眼
Coon Tree浣熊之树
A Report in January元月纪事
The Winter of the Great Snows雪冬
Riposte辩驳
The Geese鹅
The Planet大地
Letter From the East东部通讯
Bedfellows床上伙伴
Sootfall and Fallout煤炯沉降量和放射性坠尘
Unity统一
The City城市
The World of Tomorrow未来的世界
Here Is New York这就是纽约
Florida佛罗里达
On a Florida Key佛罗里达珊瑚岛
The Ring of Time时光之环
What Do Our Hearts Treasure?我们心中珍爱什么？
Memories回忆
Afternoon of an American Boy一个美国男孩的下午
Farewell, My Lovely!别了，我的至爱！
The Years of Wonder非凡岁月
Once More to the Lake重游缅湖
Diversions and Obsessions消遣与癖好
The Sea and the Wind That Blows大海与海风
The Railroad铁路
Books, Men, and Writing书、人与写作
The St. Nicholas League圣尼古拉斯协会
A Slight Sound at Evening夜之细声
Some Remarks on Humor闲话幽默
Don Marquis唐·马奎斯
Will Strunk威尔·斯特伦克
Mr. Forbush’s Friends福布什的朋友们
About E. B. White关于E. B.怀特
精彩文摘
Good-bye to Forty-eighth Street
For some weeks now I have been engaged in dispersing the contents of this apartment, trying to persuade hundreds of inanimate object to scatter and leave me alone. It is not a simple matter. I am a impressed by the reluctance of one’s worldly goods to go out again into the world. During September I kept hoping that some morning, as by magic, all books, picture, records, chairs, beds, curtains, lamps, china, glass, utensils, keepsakes would drain away from around my feet, like the outgoing tide, leaving me standing silent on a bare beach. But this not happen. My wife and I diligently sorted and discarded things from day to day, and packed other objects for the moves, but a six-room apartment hold as much paraphernalia as an aircraft carrier. You can whittle away at it, but to empty the place completely takes real ingenuity and great staying power. On one of the mornings of disposal, a man from a second-hand bookstore visited us, bought several hundred books, and told us of the death of his brother, the word “cancer” exploding in the living room like a time bomb detonated by his grief. Even after he had departed with his heavy load, there seemed to be almost as many books as before, and twice as much sorrow.
A home is like a reservoir equipped with a check valve: the valve permits influx but prevents outflow.