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The Story Of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White And The Birth Of A Children's ClassicStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionAs he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim- 'Write what you know.' Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, 'this boy,' White once wrote of himself, 'felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people.' It's all the more impressive, therefore, how many people have felt a kinship with E. B. White. With Charlotte's Web, which has gone on to sell more than 45 million copies, the man William Shawn called 'the most companionable of writers' lodged his own character, the avuncular author, into the hearts of generations of readers. Promotion infoCharlotte's Web has sold over 45 million copies - and with young readers still discovering it (100,000 copies a year), this biography will be enjoyed for years to come Meaty enough for those who want every last detail, and a smooth read for those who will use it as a summer escape to go back to their childhood's favourite story E.B. White's birthday is July 11th (he was born in 1899); media tie-in opportunities on publication 2012 will mark the 60th anniversary of the initial publication of Charlotte's Web Reviews'Another marvellous adventure uniting nature and human knowledge and imagination ... clear, focused and accessible' Library Journal on Apollo's Fire 'An entertaining, witty and erudite jackdaw's nest of a book. Sims seems not only to have read everything, the trivial as well as the lofty, but to have remembered all of it. The range of reference is dizzying' John Banville, New York Times Book Review on Adam's Navel 'Sims, editor of this brilliant collection, gathers stories of the undead written during what he loosely terms the Victorian era... An excellent addition to popular fiction and literature collections' Library Journal on Dracula's Guest (starred review) Author descriptionMichael Sims is the author of the acclaimed Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination, Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, and editor of the recent Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories and The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime He lives in western Pennsylvania. |