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The Eye of Edna from Essays of E.B. White

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Friday, January 31, 2020. Read by Jim Fleming.

“The Eye of Edna” is an essay from the collection “The Essays of E.B. White.” The author, one of the founders of The New Yorker magazine, lived in Maine at the time and writes of spending a day listening to the radio while announcers track the progress of the hurricane they say is heading his way.

(Harper & Row; ISBN-10: 0060145765)

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