The anthology features significant New Yorker articles from the tumultuous 20th century, showcasing works by renowned authors like James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, and Pauline Kael. It also includes contemporary evaluations of the 1960s by today's leading writers, providing a rich exploration of the era's cultural and social dynamics. This collection highlights both historical perspectives and modern interpretations, making it a compelling read for those interested in literary history and the evolution of thought during a pivotal decade.
Wilbur is moving to Zuckerman's farm—but he is nervous! The barn is a big, scary place. With a little help from a friendly spider named Charlotte, Wilbur learns that life on Zuckerman's farm is not so bad after all.
Swan Song Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him. Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection -- he even goes to school to learn to read and write. But nothing seems to work. Then his father steals him a real brass trumpet. Is a musical instrument the key to winning Louis his love?
In this anthology of twentieth-century essays, some of our most-admired American and British writers express their lively, candid, entertaining, thoughtful, andabove allvarious opinions. Topics range from Tangier to a lake in Maine, from racial conflict to sky diving, from the expectations we bring to travel to the athletics of the table. The essays are selected and introduced by Joseph Epstein, himself a leading contemporary practitioner of the form. Most prominent in each essay is the distinctive style of the essayist; style, as Epstein points out in his introduction, is not only what keeps literature alive but also a personal way of looking at the world.Blending the profound and the buoyant, the traditional and the new, the expected and the surprising, The Norton Book of Personal Essays offers a basketful of delights sure to find a permanent place on readers' shelves. Mark Twain, Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, M. F. K. Fisher, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. B. White, Oliver Sacks, H. L. Mencken, Truman Capote, and Flannery O'Connor are among the contributors to this volume. The chief principle of selection has been the pleasure that essays, operating at their highest power, always give.
Some Pig. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high in the barn. Her spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, as well as her feelings of a little girl named Fern...who loves Wilbur, too. Their love has been shared by millions of readers. --back cover
Kiedy w rodzinie Malutkich w Nowym Jorku urodził się drugi syn, okazało się, że jest bardzo mały i przypomina… mysz. Mimo to, domownicy, z wyjątkiem kota Śnieżka, pokochali go i otoczyli opieką. Stuart, nieśmiały, ale odważny, postanawia wyruszyć na poszukiwanie zaginionej przyjaciółki, ptaszka Margalo. Jego przygody pokazują, że prawdziwa przyjaźń nie zna strachu. Co czeka go po opuszczeniu bezpiecznego domu? Z pewnością wiele przygód! Choć nie możemy cofnąć czasu, by przeżyć dzieciństwo ze Stuartem, możemy podarować podobne doświadczenia dzieciom, które spotykamy na swojej drodze.
Siła tej opowieści tkwi w połączeniu świata zwierząt i ludzi, co jest rzadkością w literaturze dla młodych odbiorców. Ukazuje ona zachowania determinowane przez biologię oraz promuje empatię wobec wszystkich istot, co czyni ją edukacyjną. Jednocześnie, to filozoficzne rozważania o dzieciństwie, dojrzewaniu i śmierci w różnych odcieniach. Zarówno dzieci, jak i dorośli znajdą tu wiele okazji do śmiechu i wzruszeń.
A diverse collection of essays by famous writers is culled from the pages of Harper's Magazine, and includes William Faulkner on integration, John Kenneth Galbraith on the Wall Street crash, and James Thurber on women.
