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The second tree from the Corner by E.B. White - New York Harper & Brothers Publishers 1935 - 253 p.
1. Time past, time future -- A weekend with the angels; Speaking of counterweights; Afternoon of an american boy; Zoo revisited; Farewell, My lovely!; The decline of sport; the hour of letdown; The morning of the day they did it -- 2. Time present -- About myself; The door; Two letters, both open; Answers to hard questions; The retort transcendental; The second tree from the corner; Notes on our times; Mrs. Wienckus; Rainmakers; The dream of the American male; Biographee; Country dwellers; Professor Piccard-Before; Professor Piccard-After; The home; Censorship; Sound; The age of dust; Trance; Cowboy; Heavier than air; Railroads; Mantis; Withholding; Nails; Crab Grass; Remembrance of things past; Experimentation; Daylight and Darkness; Air raid drill; The distant music of the hounds --3. The wonderful world of letters -- A classic waits for me; Across the street and into the grill; Book review; Shop talk; Poets; English usage; The departure of Eustace Tilley; Critical dilemma; A writer in arms; Estimating the tax. Peaks in journalism; Readerhood; The future of reading; Writers at work; Death of the sun; 3D; Calculating machine; Ghostwriting; Incubation; In giving thanks; Some remarks on humor; Don Marquis -- 4. Nine songs -- The red cow is dead; Conch; Village revisited; The answer is "No"; Window ledge in the atom age; Under a steamer rub; Disturbers of the peace; Springtime crosstown episode in four-time; Song of the Queen bee -- 5. The city and the land - The hotel of the total stranger; Notes on the city; High noon; Transient; Busineww show; Quietude; Sadness of parting; Rediscovery; Impasse in the business world; Security; In a elevator; Twins; Life in bomb shadow; Little green shebang; The hen (An appreciation); Pasture management; Death of a pig
This book contains a collection of essays, poems, and stories by the author. Most of the items originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine.
White, E. B. -- (Elwyn Brooks) 1899-1985 Correspondence.
Humor
Wisdom
Prose
810.8 Whi 14
The second tree from the Corner by E.B. White - New York Harper & Brothers Publishers 1935 - 253 p.
1. Time past, time future -- A weekend with the angels; Speaking of counterweights; Afternoon of an american boy; Zoo revisited; Farewell, My lovely!; The decline of sport; the hour of letdown; The morning of the day they did it -- 2. Time present -- About myself; The door; Two letters, both open; Answers to hard questions; The retort transcendental; The second tree from the corner; Notes on our times; Mrs. Wienckus; Rainmakers; The dream of the American male; Biographee; Country dwellers; Professor Piccard-Before; Professor Piccard-After; The home; Censorship; Sound; The age of dust; Trance; Cowboy; Heavier than air; Railroads; Mantis; Withholding; Nails; Crab Grass; Remembrance of things past; Experimentation; Daylight and Darkness; Air raid drill; The distant music of the hounds --3. The wonderful world of letters -- A classic waits for me; Across the street and into the grill; Book review; Shop talk; Poets; English usage; The departure of Eustace Tilley; Critical dilemma; A writer in arms; Estimating the tax. Peaks in journalism; Readerhood; The future of reading; Writers at work; Death of the sun; 3D; Calculating machine; Ghostwriting; Incubation; In giving thanks; Some remarks on humor; Don Marquis -- 4. Nine songs -- The red cow is dead; Conch; Village revisited; The answer is "No"; Window ledge in the atom age; Under a steamer rub; Disturbers of the peace; Springtime crosstown episode in four-time; Song of the Queen bee -- 5. The city and the land - The hotel of the total stranger; Notes on the city; High noon; Transient; Busineww show; Quietude; Sadness of parting; Rediscovery; Impasse in the business world; Security; In a elevator; Twins; Life in bomb shadow; Little green shebang; The hen (An appreciation); Pasture management; Death of a pig
This book contains a collection of essays, poems, and stories by the author. Most of the items originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine.
White, E. B. -- (Elwyn Brooks) 1899-1985 Correspondence.
Humor
Wisdom
Prose
810.8 Whi 14