num_pages: 208
description: E. B. White (1899-1985) is best known for his children's books Charlotte's Web Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan. Columnist for The New Yorker for over half a century and co-author of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style White hit his stride as an American literary icon when he began publishing his One Man's Meat columns from his saltwater farm on the coast of Maine. In E. B. White on Dogs his granddaughter and manager of his literary estate Martha White has compiled the best and funniest of his essays poems letters and sketches depicting over a dozen of White's various canine companions. Featured here are favorite essays such as Two Letters Both Open where White takes on the Internal Revenue Service and also Bedfellows with its fraudulent reports from White's ignoble old dachshund Fred. (I just saw an eagle go by. It was carrying a baby.) From The New Yorker's Talk of the Town are some little-known Notes and Comment pieces.
language: English
title: E.B. White on Dogs
publisher: Tilbury House