Winesburg, Ohio: By Sherwood Anderson - Illustrated - Softcover

Sherwood Anderson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1520827857 ISBN 13: 9781520827858

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

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1. Font adjustments & biography included
2. Unabridged (100% Original content)
3. Illustrated

About Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio (full title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The work is structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man. It is set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio (not to be confused with the actual Winesburg), which is based loosely on the author's childhood memories of Clyde, Ohio. Mostly written from late 1915 to early 1916, with a few stories completed closer to publication, they were "...conceived as complementary parts of a whole, centered in the background of a single community." The book consists of twenty-two stories, with the first story, "The Book of the Grotesque", serving as an introduction. Each of the stories shares a specific character's past and present struggle to overcome the loneliness and isolation that seems to permeate the town. Stylistically, because of its emphasis on the psychological insights of characters over plot, and plain-spoken prose, Winesburg, Ohio is known as one of the earliest works of Modernist literature.

About this title

About the Author:

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) had a simple and direct writing style that influenced both Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. His most notable works include Winesburg, Ohio, Triumph of the Egg, Horses and Men, and A Story Teller's Story.

George K. Wilson has narrated over one hundred fiction and nonfiction audiobook titles, from Thomas L. Friedman to Thomas Pynchon, and has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards.

About this edition

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1520827857
• ISBN 13: 9781520827858
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 159
• Illustrator: Monty