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Story Of Charlottes Web (2012)

by Michael Sims(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1408827778 (ISBN13: 9781408827772)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Bloomsbury UK

review 1: This was a wonderful read on the backstory of Charlotte's Web. Who Andy White was helps to better understand the creation of Charlotte's Web. Andy (who hails from Cornell) had a wonderful life experience. The fact that he's the White in the Strunk and White "Elements of Style" is a bonus as far as I'm concerned. It was a little more technical that I thought it needed to be in the middle, with the analytical assessment of his edits on the rough draft, but did put up editing skills from that. But the core of the story, to my mind, what the conflict White had form within. "One issue that haunted Andy was the morality of raising farm animals. As he walked along through the early-morning mist, around the corner of the barn and down to the barn cellar, carrying a sloshing pail o... moref slops for a pig, he faced again and again, what he thought of his own duplicity. His pig relied upon him to deliver the food and guard the door, and Andy performed these tasks conscientiously. But in a few months he was schedule to betray the creature's confidence and slaughter it." He was a man with conflict and I appreciate his wrestling with this. I'll now re-read Charlotte's web with a renewed understanding, I think and I look very much forward to that.
review 2: I have always loved Charlotte's Web, and I feel that Michael Sims does an honorable job of portraying the EB White's life and the struggles of this author at work. As meticulously as White sought, first and foremost, to preserve the realism of Charlotte as a spider and Wilbur as a pig, I believe Sims preserves the realism of Andy White as a sensitive and dedicated writer, loving husband, father, uncle, son, sibling, and friend without resorting to turning him into something else--some unreachable, sanctified ideal. less

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