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Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories by Sherwood Anderson
Category: Fiction
In the winter of 1912, Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) abruptly left his office and spent three days wandering through the Ohio countryside, a victim of "nervous exhaustion." Over the next few years, abandoning his family and his business, he resolved to become a writer. Novels and poetry followed, but it ...Show more
WINESBURG, OHIO-SIGNET PB by ANDERSON SHERWOOD
Category: Fiction
Inspired by Anderson’s Midwestern boyhood and his adulthood in early 20th-century Chicago, this volume gave birth to the American story cycle, for which Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and later writers were forever indebted. Defying the prudish sensibilities of his time, Anderson embraced frankness and ...Show more
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Category: Classic Fiction
Considered to be one of Sherwood Anderson's greatest works, "Winesburg, Ohio" is the portrayal of a fictitious American town and its inhabitants. "Winesburg, Ohio" is a collection of connected short stories depicting a variety of themes of rural American life. Heralded for its beautiful realism, "Winesb ...Show more
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Category: Fiction
With a new introduction by Sara Wheeler. "He was the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing". (William Faulkner). This timeless cycle of short stories lays bare the life of a small town in the American Midwest. The central character is George Willard, a young r ...Show more
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Category: Fiction
Portraying the characters and events of a small Midwestern town at the end of the nineteenth century, Winesburg, Ohio is a chronological cycle of stories which reads like an episodic novel. Centring on George Willard, a young local reporter with big-city aspirations, and his conversations with fellow in ...Show more
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
A novel about life in a small Midwestern town in the 1890s, where everyday existence is not always as simple as it seems. This "Norton Critical Edition" contains the text of the first book edition, published in 1919. It is annotated and is accompanied by a map of Winesburg. The "Backgrounds" section inc ...Show more
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