E. B. White

PREFACEColleges up and down the land are teaching, or soon will be teaching, students in uniformprospective officers of the armed forces. The Army and the Navy both require, in their basic pro-grams, the study of American history and American institutions in the context of world history and of the...

INTRODUCTIONThe view is less frequently encountered today than formerly that a short story is (and, by implication, properly so) a condensed novel, a work that its author has for one cause or another failed to extend to a more imposing length. It is generally recognized, rather, that the short...

CAPITOLUL I In conducta Cánd a apárut al doilea fiu al sotiei domnului Frederick C. Little, toatá lumea a remarcat cá nu era cu mult mai mare ca un soarece. Adevárul e cá bebelusul semana mult cu un soarece in tóate privintele. Era inalt doar de vreo cinci centimetri si avea un...

Chapter I THE STRANGE BABY Mr. Little ^ and his family lived in New York City. 2 Mr. Little worked in an office. His wife, Mrs.^Little, took care of the house.^ She was a kind woman and liked animals. She kept a white cat called Snowball.^ She also liked to play the piano. Mr. and Mrs. Little...