re-issue of the classic paean to New York City first issued in 1949 by E. B. White</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Perceptive?? funny?? and nostalgic?? E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city?? written by one of America's foremost literary figures. <i>The New York Times</i> has named <i>Here is New York</i> one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis?? and <i>The New Yorker</i> calls it "ittiest essay?? and one of the most perceptive?? ever done on the city.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>" any person who desires such queer prizes?? New York will bestow the  gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy."So begins E.B. White's classic meditation on that noisiest?? most public of American cities. Written during the summer of 1948?? well after the author and editor had taken up permanent residence in Maine?? <I>Here Is New York</I> is a fond glance back at the city of his youth?? when White was one of the "g worshipful beginners" who give New York its passionate character. It's also a tribute to the sheer implausibility of the place--the tangled infrastructure?? the teeming humanity?? the dearth of air and light. Much has changed since White wrote this essay?? yet in a city  "h changeless and changing" there are things here that will doubtless ring equally true 100 years from now. To wit?? "ew Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience--if they did they would live elsewhere." <p>  Anyone who's ever cherished his essays--or even <I>Charlotte's Web</I>--knows that White is the most elegant of all possible stylists. There's not a sentence here that does not make itself felt right down to the reader's very bones. What would the author make of Giuliani's New York? Or of Times Square?? Disney-style? It's hard to say for sure. But not even Planet Hollywood could ruin White's abiding sense of wonder: "he city is like poetry: it compresses all life ... into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines." This lovely new edition marks the 100th anniversary of E.B. White's birth--cause for celebration indeed. <I>--Mary Park</I></br><br/>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1892145022ll texture adds a