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Roger Angell
Birth date: September 19, 1920
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Author Massimo Marino
Author Massimo Marino rated it 13 years ago
The Elements of Style travels the decades without showing a single wrinkle. What impressed me most is the attention to the reader, here and there hinting at the "contract" between writers and their readers: "you must sympathize with the reader's plight".A final admonition to all writers aims at bei...
msleighm books
msleighm books rated it 13 years ago
I've just realized I'm out of date, there is a fourth edition I now need to get. Then, because I am a literary geek, I will proceed to compare the changes from the third edition to the fourth (I suspect I know two modifications, I want to see if I'm right...). So this goes off the "currently-reading...
Sliding Fingers
Sliding Fingers rated it 14 years ago
Powerful short book that pulled me along from the first sentence all the way to be battered about the head near the end. Others have noted it in reviews, I believe maybe even on here. Noted the mention of the planes. And the destruction. The mention of how New Yorkers fear the planes, collapsing bui...
debnance
debnance rated it 14 years ago
E. B. White shares his vision of New York City, a world of contrasts. My favorite image from this short book is that he describes in the last paragraph of the book is that of an old willow tree growing in an interior garden. He says it "symbolizes the city: life under difficulties, growth against od...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 48 years ago
At this point I think I've not so much read this book as absorbed it by osmosis.
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