Winesburg, Ohio
Text and Criticism
$55.34
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
1 August 1996
Summary
George Willard is a young reporter on the Winesburg Eagle to whom, one by one, the inhabitants of Winesburg, Ohio, confide their hopes, their dreams, and their fears. This town of friendly but solitary people comes to life as Anderson’s special talent exposes the emotional undercurrents that bind its people together. In this timeless cycle of short stories, he lays bare the life of a small town in the American Midwest.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140247794 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140247793 |
| Author: | Sherwood Anderson, John H. Ferres |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 1996 |
| Weight: | 435g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 30mm |
| Series: | The Viking Critical Library |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
“When he calls himself a ‘poor scribbler’ don’t believe him. He is not a poor scribbler … he is a very great writer.”–Ernest Hemingway
“Winesburg, Ohio, when it first appeared, kept me up a whole night in a steady crescendo of emotion.”–Hart Crane
“As a rule, first books show more bravado than anything else, unless it be tediousness. But there is neither of these qualities in Winesburg, Ohio… . These people live and breathe: they are beautiful.”–E. M. Forster
“Winesburg, Ohio is an extraordinarily good book. But it is not fiction. It is poetry.”–Rebecca West
About The Author
Sherwood Anderson
Born in 1876, Sherwood Anderson grew up in a small town in Ohio—an experience that was the basis of his greatest achievements as a writer. He served in the Spanish-American War, worked as an advertising man, and managed an Ohio paint factory before abandoning both job and family to embark on a literary career in Chicago. His first novel, Windy McPherson’s Son, was published in 1916; his second, Marching Men, a characteristic study of the individual in conflict with industrial society, appeared in 1917. But it is Winesburg, Ohio (1919), with its disillusioned view of small-town lives, that is generally considered his masterpiece. Later novels—Poor White, Many Marriages, and Dark Laughter—continued to depict the spiritual poverty of the machine age. Anderson died in 1941.
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