Fiction · 1919
Winesburg, Ohio
A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
Twenty-two linked stories about the people of a small Ohio town — the doctor, the teacher, the minister at his window, the woman who never got away — gathered around the young reporter George Willard, who listens to all of them and then takes the morning train out. The opening piece, The Book of the Grotesque, explains what the others are for.
Sherwood Anderson published the book in 1919, after walking out of the paint business he ran in Elyria. Its plain sentences and its subject — the private life of ordinary people in a place with no room for it — changed American prose; Hemingway and Faulkner both said they had learned from him.
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Contents
- Dedication
- The Book of the Grotesque
- Hands
- Paper Pills
- Mother
- The Philosopher
- Nobody Knows
- Godliness (Part One)
- Godliness (Part Two)
- Surrender (Part Three)
- Terror (Part Four)
- A Man of Ideas
- Adventure
- Respectability
- The Thinker
- Tandy
- The Strength of God
- The Teacher
- Loneliness
- An Awakening
- “Queer”
- The Untold Lie
- Drink
- Death
- Sophistication
- Departure
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1876–1941 · Modern
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) was born at Camden, Ohio, and had made himself a paint manufacturer in Elyria before walking out of the business in 1912 and going to Chicago to write. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) established him; The Triumph of the Egg (1921), Horses and Men (1923) and Dark Laughter (1925) followed. He encouraged both Hemingway and Faulkner early on, and his plain, spoken sentences left a mark on each of them.
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