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Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man's Meat can best be described as a primer of a countryman's lessons a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out of style.
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"Modest in its size and presumptions, engaging in tone...resisted becoming historic...nonstop run of 55 years in print."
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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 Little and Charlotte'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.
Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Mr. White attended public schools there. He was graduated from Cornell University in 1921, worked in New York for a year, then traveled about. After five or six years of trying many sorts of jobs, he joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine, then in its infancy. The connection proved a happy one and resulted in a steady output of satirical sketches, poems, essays, and editorials. His essays have also appeared in Harper's Magazine, and his books include One Man's Meat, The Second Tree from the Corner, Letters of E.B. White, The Essays of E.B. White and Poems and Sketches of E.B. White. In 1938 Mr. White moved to the country. On his farm in Maine he kept animals, and some of these creatures got into his stories and books. Mr. White said he found writing difficult and bad for one's disposition, but he kept at it. He began Stuart Little in the hope of amusing a six-year-old niece of his, but before he finished it, she had grown up.
For his total contribution to American letters, Mr. White was awarded the 1971 National Medal for Literature. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy named Mr. White as one of thirty-one Americans to receive the Presidential Medal for Freedom. Mr. White also received the National Institute of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Essays and Criticism, and in 1973 the members of the Institute elected him to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a society of fifty members. He also received honorary degrees from seven colleges and universities. Mr. White died on October 1, 1985.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tilbury House; 13th ed. edition (June 1, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0884481921
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0884481928
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.01 x 0.88 x 9.08 inches
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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 Little and Charlotte'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.

Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Mr. White attended public schools there. He was graduated from Cornell University in 1921, worked in New York for a year, then traveled about. After five or six years of trying many sorts of jobs, he joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine, then in its infancy. The connection proved a happy one and resulted in a steady output of satirical sketches, poems, essays, and editorials. His essays have also appeared in Harper's Magazine, and his books include One Man's Meat, The Second Tree from the Corner, Letters of E.B. White, The Essays of E.B. White and Poems and Sketches of E.B. White. In 1938 Mr. White moved to the country. On his farm in Maine he kept animals, and some of these creatures got into his stories and books. Mr. White said he found writing difficult and bad for one's disposition, but he kept at it. He began Stuart Little in the hope of amusing a six-year-old niece of his, but before he finished it, she had grown up.

For his total contribution to American letters, Mr. White was awarded the 1971 National Medal for Literature. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy named Mr. White as one of thirty-one Americans to receive the Presidential Medal for Freedom. Mr. White also received the National Institute of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Essays and Criticism, and in 1973 the members of the Institute elected him to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a society of fifty members. He also received honorary degrees from seven colleges and universities. Mr. White died on October 1, 1985.

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5.0 out of 5 stars If Grandpa had a book....
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2018
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Can E.B. White be my grandfather? Regardless of his consent, I'm going to start quoting this book in conversation with, "As my grandfather used to say..."

I LOVE every moment, every passage, every single sarcastic and well-written tale in this manuscript. From the old-timey chapters on the cost to raise his chickens to his government-supplied limestone allotment (from President Roosevelt!), this book takes the reader back to the simple country life of WWII-era America as seen by a man who, by his own admission, has no business living that life. But, lest we believe his passages are only intelligent quips and observations like those of a modern comedian, the underbelly is still the era in which he tells his tales. In no chapter is this more beautifully apparent than in "The Wave of the Future". He starts the chapter explaining his construction of a boat, the Flounder. He's sure to point out how he prepared himself for the build... "by asking a man how to build a boat and he told me." But soon, he falls into a diatribe about a book he read called "The Wave of the Future" by Anne Lindbergh. In the book, Mrs. Lindbergh argues a point (which the benefit of history deems ridiculous) that the fascist forces are manipulating a new wave of engaging society. A point which our boy EB finds absurd. Saying, "The forces are always the same--on the people's side frustration, disaffection; on the leader's side control of hysteria, perversion of information, abandonment of principle. There is nothing new in it and nothing good in it..." Sounds like good advice, perhaps even for today... in America?

Well, as my grandfather used to say, "I don't know. It is something for every man to study over, with the help of his God and his conscience." I cannot recommend this book enough. I will continue to keep it at my bedside and read an essay here and there, because, these words are little nuggets of inspiring brilliance.
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L. M Young
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2016
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After reading THE ESSAYS OF E.B. WHITE, I had to purchase this other collection of White's essays, written between 1938 and 1943, after White and his family pulled up stakes from New York apartment life to a saltwater farm in Maine and first published in 1942 with ten fewer essays, starting with White talking about packing up his New York life. If you think there is culture shock today when moving from city to country or coast to coast, imagine it in an age when radio is the biggest thing in technology, going from a modern furnished city apartment to the country with no electricity, no central heat, and animals to care for. The seminal ideas that would later see light in CHARLOTTE'S WEB can be found here, plus the juxtaposition of ordinary farm chores (sick animals, extricating oneself from the snow, obtaining enough wood to keep warm) against the upheavals of events in Europe, and finally war itself, where White finds himself cutting marsh hay one day, helping to conduct blackout drills the next.

I continued to be amused by the way White's pre-war commentary has parallels today, including a diatribe about television (as seen at the 1939 World's Fair) which sounds just like modern complaints about the internet! Plus ça change, plus c'est la même indeed! In each essay his gift for just the right word, just the right phrase is evident again and again, whether he's discussing the fragility of turkeys or the World's Fair or lambing season or a bond rally. Just paging through this book to recollect some of the essays makes me want to sit down right now and read it again. E.B. White was an American treasure. Find this book, or the ESSAYS. You won't regret it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful writing
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2023
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I read this book of essays to the point of its falling apart.Tho written in the late 30’s and early 40’s the humor and pithiness are timeless, yet somehow calming for for this day and age.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of good common sense diisplaeyed in understated self deprecating phrases
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2017
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Lots of good common sense diisplaeyed in understated self deprecating phrases. Still pertinent some 75 years after it was written. The essay debunking Anne Morrow Lindbergh's America first proposal I found particularly compelling and timely. Lots here in nostalgia for those of us lucky enough to have grown up on a farm during the WWII days of the 1940's. I was so blessed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars More great writing
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2024
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Daisy Darcy
5.0 out of 5 stars One Man's Meat
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2012
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For years I have admired the writing voice of E.B. White. We are of two very different generations and times, him and I, yet his words so gently bind me to him and his thoughts; I feel as if I am sitting at his very side, listening with rapt attention to his every word.

This collection of essays can be read out of order, over and over. That's how meaty the words are; you read and taste them every single time, no matter how often you have chreished the words. He writes of his everyday life, which can seem so simple and mundane, yet White is reminding us that these small daily occurences are what make us what we are. There are so many layers to White, and I think that makes him one of the most versatile writers to be published. Here is a man who enchanted us as children and adults alike with his children stories, and who can still drive deep into the hearts of men with these essays.

If you have never read White, I fervently encourage you to start with this collection.
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Thelma
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative, humorous and profound homespun philosophy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 30, 2021
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This is a collection of articles written between 1939 and 1942 by a journalist in America who has moved to the country to run a small farm. The author weaves together his everyday experiences with America's entry into the 2nd world war, using the apparently trivial to reflect upon political and philosophical ideas. The style is very readable, concise and precise.
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Gordon Findlay
5.0 out of 5 stars the distillation of a good life, well spent
Reviewed in Canada on February 6, 2016
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A delightful book: gentle, warm and thoughtful, the distillation of a good life, well spent.
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