E. B. White

Deformations: twentieth-century landscapes of ruin. Walden / E.B. White From the Grand Canyon to Burbank (1945) / Henry Miller A Sand County Almanac / Aldo Leopold Illinois bus Ride / Aldo Leopold Thinking Like a Mountain / Aldo Leopold Silent Spring (1962) / Rachel Carson Realms of the Soil / Rachel Carson Of a Fire on the Moon (1969) / Norman Mailer A Brook in the City (1930) / Robert Frost The Mouth of the Hudson (1964) / Robert Lowell Decline and Fall (1960) / John Frederick Nims Burning Mountain (1960) / W.S. Merwin In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (1967) / William Gass The Cleveland Wrecking Yard (1967) / Richard Brautigan The Magic Poker (1969) / Robert Coover -- Early explorations. Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis (1076) / Adam of Bremen Letter ... Describing ... His First Voyage ... (1493) / Christopher Columbus Letter to the King (1524) / Giovanni da Verrazzano Decades of the New World (1533) / Peter Martyr Expedition to Cibola (1540) / Pedro de Castaneda First Voyage to Virginia (1584) / Arthur Barlowe Ode to the Virginian Voyage (?1605) / Michael Drayton Briefe and True Relation (1602) / John Brereton -- The cultivation of the promised land, 1620-1800. Of Plymouth Plantation (1620) / William Bradford Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Saviour in New England (1653) / Edward Johnson The History and Present State of Virginia (1705) / Robert Beverely Letters from an American Farmer (1782) / Hector St. Jean De Crevecoeur -- Eighteenth-century perspectives: natural history and the sublime. Travels (1791) [A Trip up the Altamaha River] / William Bartram Travels (1791) [Ephemera: St. John's River] / William Bartram Travels (1791) [Salt Springs] / William Bartram Travels (1791) [A Sylvan Scene] / William Bartram Notes on Virginia (1784) [The Confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers] / Thomas Jefferson Notes on Virginia (1784) [The Natural Bridge, Virginia] / Thomas Jefferson -- Poetry of scene: an American grand tour. View from West Point (1840) / Nathaniel Willis The Canal Boat (1846) / Nathaniel Hawthorne The Book of Niagara Falls / Horatio Parsons Black Mountain-Lake George (1840) / Nathaniel Willis from Travels in New England and New York (1821-1822) / Timothy Dwight Notch of the White Mountains (1835) / Nathaniel Hawthorne The American Scene (1907) / Henry James -- Landscape in the great theater of human events. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) / Washington Irving from The Last of the Mohicans (1826) / James Fenimore Cooper -- Landscape as idea: the transcendentalists. From Walden (1854) / Henry David Thoreau from Cape Cod (1864) / Henry David Thoreau from The Maine Woods (1864) / Henry David Thoreau from The Mountains of California (1894) / John Muir A Wind-storm in the Forests / John Muir -- Landscape as idea: romantic prose and poetry. Sights from a Steeple (1831) / Nathaniel Hawthorne The Ambitious Guest (1835) / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Island of the Fay]( / Edgar Allan Poe from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) / Frederick Douglass A Forest Hymn (1825) / William Cullen Bryant Each and All (1839) / Ralph Waldo Emerson Haze (1843) / Henry David Thoreau Low-Anchored Cloud (1843) / Henry David Thoreau #824: The Wind begun to knead the Grass (?1864) / Emily Dickinson #550: I cross til I am weary (?1862) / Emily Dickenson #797: By my window I have for Scenery (?1863) / Emily Dickinson #1278: The Mountains stood in Haze- (?1873) / Emily Dickinson #1343: A single Clover Plank (?1875) / Emily Dickinson When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1865) / Walt Whitman Song of the Redwood-Tree (1874) / Walt Whitman A Voice from Death (1889) / Walt Whitman -- The ways west: explorers, travelers and emigrants. From The Journals of Lewis and Clark (1809) / Meriwether Lewis from Travels in the Interior of North America (1839) / Prince Maximilian from Astoria (1836) / Washington Irving from Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1845) / John C. Fremont from Across the Great Southwestern Prairies (1845) / George W. Kendall from The Discovery of Yellowstone Park (1905) / Nathaniel Pitt Langford from The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (1895) / John Wesley Powell from The Grand Canyon (1895) / John Wesley Powell from Roughing It (1872) / Mark Twain from Specimen Days (1822) / Walt Whitman from The West from a Car Window (1892) / Richard Harding Davis from the Central Gold Region (1860) / William Gilpin Dakota Wheat Fields (1880) / C.C. Coffin from Old Jules (1935) / Mari Sandoz from The Octopus (1901) / Frank Norris from The Grapes of Wrath (1939) / John Steinbeck -- Landscape as environment: local color landscapes. The Luck of Roaring Camp (1868) / Bret Harte [Beyond The Bayou ]( / Kate Chopin -- Landscapes as antagonist: the literary naturalists. The Blue Hotel (1898) / Stephen Crane from The Wild Palms (1927) / William Faulkner -- Landscape into myth and ritual. From Masked Gods (1950) / Frank Waters The Rock / Frank Waters The Canyon / Frank Waters Creation Myth Night Chant (Navaho) Rain Song (Pima) Big Swamps of the Congaree The Promised Land Big Corn from Mules and Men (1935) / Zora Neale Hurston form The Wounds of Jesus / The Reverend D.C. Lovelace from Davy Crockett (1934) / Constance Rourke -- Affirming the ancient connections: twentieth-century symbiotic landscapes. Big Two-Hearted River (1925) Part 1 Big Two-Hearted River (1925) Part 2 Night in the Garden (1942) / Edwin Way Teale The Flow of the River (1957) / Loren Eiseley Alone on a Mountaintop (1960) / Jack Kerouac The priest of the Sun (1958) / N. Scott Momaday Flowers by the Sea (1935) / William Carlos Williams Dawn (1917) / William Carlos Williams The Trees (1934) / William Carlos Williams Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly (1954) / Wallace Stevens The Snow Man (1923) / Wallace Stevens Desert Places (1939) / Robert Frost Directive (1949) / Robert Frost West-Running Brook (1930) / Robert Frost Apology for Bad Dreams (1930) / Robinson Jeffers Meditation at Oyster River (1960) / Theodore Roethke A Road in Kentucky (1966) / Robert Hayden Ballad of Nat Turner (1966) / Robert Hayden Oak (1972) / Michael S. Harper Dead Oaks (1972) / Michael S. Harper Conserving the Magnitude of Uselessness (1970) / A.R. Ammons Possibility Along a line of Difference / A.R. Ammons The Hummingbird (1972) / Robert Pack Make Way (1973) / Robert Pack A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1966) / Denise Levertov Advent (?1949) / Brother Antoninus The South Coast (1959) / Brother Antoninus.

Contains: A tooth for Paul Revere / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The man who missed the bus / Stella Benson -- The happy autumn fields / Elizabeth Bowen -- They weren't going to die / Kay Boyle -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- The new villa / Anton Chekhov -- Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerlad -- The captive / Caroline Gordon -- The second death / Graham Greene -- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- The bench of desolation / Henry James -- [Clay]( / James Joyce -- An old page / Franz Kafka -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- The outstation / William Somerset Maugham -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Mariá Concepción / Katherine Anne Porter -- The valiant woman / James F. Powers -- The passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins / Irwin Shaw -- Fight number twenty-five / Jesse Stuart -- The fancy woman / Peter Taylor -- The singers / Ivan Turgenev -- First love / Eudora Welty -- The second tree from the corner / E.B. White.

Explorers and early settlers -- The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith -- The history and present state of Virginia / Robert Beverley -- Of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford -- "A model of Christian charity" / John Winthrop -- "In memory of my dear grandchild Anne Bradstreet" / Anne Bradstreet -- "The minister's black veil" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Voices of a revolution -- "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" / Jonathan Edwards -- "The way to wealth" / Benjamin Franklin -- "Considerations on keeping Negroes" / John Woolman -- "The last of the Mohicans: a narrative of 1757" / James Fenimore Cooper -- Common sense / Thomas Paine -- Declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson -- personal letters / John Adams & Abigail Adams -- The search for a national identity -- "On the emigration to America and peopling the western country" / Philip Freneau -- "Federalist no.2" / John Jay -- "The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano" / Olaudah Equiano -- The history of the Lewis and Clark expedition / Meriwether Lewis & William Clark -- A tour on the prairies / Washington Irving -- "Tecumseh's plea to the Choctaws and the Chickasaws" / Tecumseh -- The shackles of power: three Jeffersonian decades / John Dos Passos. A confident nation -- "The young American" / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "Resistance to civil government" / Henry David Thoreau -- Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller -- "Great are the myths" / Walt Whitman -- "Annexation" / John L. O'Sullivan -- Personal memoirs / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin -- Slavery and the abolition movement -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs -- Uncle Tom's cabin / Harrriet Beecher Stowe -- Sociology for the South / George Fitzhugh -- "Appeal to the Christian women of the South" / Angelina Grimke Weld -- "The hunters of men" / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Civil war and reconstruction -- "The portent" / Herman Melville -- The red badge of courage: an episode of the American Civil War / Stephen Crane -- "Hospital sketches" / Louisa May Alcott -- "O Captain! My Captain!" / Walt Whitman -- "Up from slavery" / Booker T. Washington -- The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. DuBois. Industrializing America -- The closing of the frontier -- O pioneers! / Willa Cather -- "Chiquita" / Bret Harte -- The life and adventure of Nat Love, better known in the cattle country as Deadwood Dick / Nat Love -- "Kansas I" / A Mexican Folk Ballad -- "The passing of the buffalo" / Hamlin Garland -- Black Elk speaks / Black Elk -- Artists render industrialization and urbanization -- "What the engines said" / Bret Harte -- "Life in the iron mills" / Rebecca Harding Davis -- The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- "Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge" / Hart Crane -- Yekl: a tale of the New York ghetto / Abraham Cahan -- "Chicago" / Carl Sandburg -- Social critics and reformers -- "We are all bound up together" / Francis E. Watkins Harper -- Eighty years and more: reminiscences 1815-1897 / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- "A church mouse" / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Huckleberry Finn / Samuel L. Clemens -- The shame of the cities / Lincoln Steffens -- The jungle / Upton Sinclair. Americans abroad and World War I -- The portrait of a lady / Henry James -- "The white man's burden" / Rudyard Kipling -- "The real 'white man's burden'" / Ernest Crosby -- "Hallelujahs" / Jose de Diego -- One of ours / Willa Cather -- "next to of course god america i" / E. E. Cummings -- Democracy and adversity -- The jazz age -- The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- "Song of perfect propriety" / Dorothy Parker -- The flivver king / Upton Sinclair -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- "The weary blues" / Langston Hughes -- Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- The Great Depression and the New Deal -- The big money / John Dos Passos -- Waiting for Lefty / Clifford Odets -- "Women on the breadlines" / Meridel LeSueur -- The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck -- "Colonial Park" / Ralph Ellison -- "Proud day" / Genevieve Taggard. World War II -- "Freedom" / E. B. White -- Battle cry / Leon Uris -- Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston -- "Apostrophe to the land" / Countee Cullen -- The face of war / Martha Gellhorn -- Night / Elie Wiesel -- Hiroshima / John Hershey -- The challenges of power -- Prosperity and anxiety -- An American childhood / Annie Dillard -- The man in the gray flannel suit / Sloan Wilson -- On the road / Jack Kerouac -- Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- The cruicible / Arthur Miller -- The right stuff / Tom Wolfe -- Rights and revolutions -- "Letter from a Birmingham jail" / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- "Message to the grass roots" / Malcolm X -- "Why I want a wife" / Judy Brady -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- Lakota woman / Mary Crow Dog -- "Blowin' in the wind" / Bob Dylan -- The Vietnam years -- One very hot day / David Halberstam -- Going after Cacciato / Tim O'Brien -- "Life at war" / Denise Levertov -- American pastoral / Philip Roth -- "Letters from my father" / Robert Olen Butler.

The muse / by Anthony Burgess -- The unsafe deposit box / by Gerald Kersh -- Something strange / by Kingsley Amis -- Sold to Satan / by Mark Twain -- The end of the party / by Graham Greene -- The circular ruins / by Jorge Luis Borges -- The shout / by Robert Graves -- The door / by E.B. White -- The machine stops / by E.M. Forster -- The Mark Gable Foundation / by Leo Szilard -- The enormous radio / by John Cheever -- The finest story in the world / by Rudyard Kipling -- The Shoddy Lands / by C.S. Lewis

Contains: - [Charlotte's Web]( - [Stuart Little](

Contents The girls in their summer dresses by Irwin Shaw Over the river and through the wood by John O'Hara The secret life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber The net by Robert M. Coates Home atmosphere by Sally Benson A toast to Captain Jerk by Russell Maloney Kroy Wen by Kay Boyle Nice girl by Sherwood Anderson HYMAN KAPLA*N, samaritan by Leonard Q. Ross Prelude to reunion by Oliver La Farge A small day by Erskine Caldwell Midsummer by Nancy Hale The door by E.B. White Tourist home by Benedict Thielen Arrangement in black and white by Dorothy Parker The courtship of Milton Barker by Wolcott Gibbs Homecoming by William Maxwell Only the dead know Brooklyn by Thomas Wolfe The works by Nathan Asch Do you like it here? by John O'Hara Conversation piece by Louise Bogan The fury by Robert M. Coates Venetian perspective by Janet Flanner Ping-pong by St. Clair McKelway The three veterans by Leane Zugsmith Wet Saturday by John Collier Soldiers of the republic by Dorothy Parker Houseparty by Walter Bernstein All the years of her life by Morley Callaghan The explorers by Jerome Weidman The old lady by Thyra Samter Winslow A matter of pride by Christopher La Farge Love in the snow by Joel Sayre. Profession : housewife by Sally Benson The great manta by Edwin Corle My sister Frances by Emily Hahn Accident near Charlottesburg by William A. Krauss In honor of their daughter by John Mosher The test by Angelica Gibbs Goodbye, Shirley Temple by Joseph Mitchell Honors and awards by James Reid Parker Pastoral at Mr. Piper's by Mollie Panter-Downes Man and woman by Erskine Caldwell Main currents of American thought by Irwin Shaw The knife by Brendan Gill The pelican's shadow by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Incident on a street corner by Albert Maltz Such a pretty day by Dawn Powell Portrait of ladies by Mark Shorer Parochial school by Paul Horgan I am waiting by Christopher Isherwood A letter from the Bronx by Arthur Kober Little woman by Sally Benson The apostate by George Milburn Sailor off the Bremen by Irwin Shaw Barmecide's feast by Marc Connelly Fish story by Donald Moffat I've got an anchor on my chest by R.H. Newman The happiest days by John Cheever Black boy by Kay Boyle The nice Judge Trowbridge by Richard Lockridge Love in Brooklyn by Daniel Fuchs The great-grandmother by Nancy Hale Chutzbah by Jerome Weidman Mr. Palmer's party by Tess Slesinger A different world by Robert M. Coates Are we leaving tomorrow? by John O'Hara The getaway by Dorothy Thomas.

Letters written between 1908 and 1976, which are at the same time a biography and the history of an era.

Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure. Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, disappears from her nest. Determined to track her down, Stuart ventures away from home for the very first time in his life. He finds adventure aplenty. But will he find his friend?

Based on a chapter from E.B. White's classic novel, Stuart Little helps his family retrieve a piece of jewelry that fell down the bathtub drain.