| ... there is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the centre is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town's `grotesques' - solitary figures unable tocommunicate with others. George is their conduit for expression and solace from loneliness, but he has ....[more] |
1917
| "Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America. . . . It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own," wrote H.L. Mencken, speaking of Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio," Anderson, he said, is "America's Most Distinctive Novelist." "Marching Men," Anderson's 1917 second novel, is a tale taht focuses on the plight of the working man in an industrial society. Like all of Anderson's tales, it's an important social commenta....[more] |
1912
| Sherwood Anderson was a 20th century American writer of short stories. Anderson grew up in Ohio and after college became a copywriter in Chicago. He is most famous for his collection of interrelated short stories, Winesburg Ohio, which he began writing in 1919. Poor White was published in 1920. Hugh McVey is an inventor who rises from poverty. The story is set on the banks of the Mississippi River during the years when rural America is influenced by industrialization sweeping the country. |
1965
| "Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America. . . . It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own," wrote H.L. Mencken, speaking of Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio." Anderson, he said, is "America's Most Distinctive Novelist." "Windy McPherson's Son," Anderson's 1916 first novel, concerns a boy's life in Iowa. Like all of Anderson's tales, it's an important social commentary, and not to be overlooked. |
2006
| There is a story.-I cannot tell it.-I have no words. The story is almost forgotten but sometimes I remember. |
2005
| There is a story. - I cannot tell it. - I have no words. The story is almost forgotten but sometimes I remember. The story concerns three men in a house in a street. If I could say the words I would sing the story. I would whisper it into the ears of women, of mothers. I would run through the streets saying it over and over. My tongue would be torn loose - it would rattle against my teeth. The three men are in a room in the house. One is young and dandified. He continually laughs. There is a sec....[more] |
1972
| A memoir of Midwestern life and culture from the author of Winesburg, Ohio Praise forA Story Teller's Story--- "The AmericanPortrait of the Artist." -Charles Baxter "Probably unequaled . . . for the austerity of moral courage and sincerity of conviction. . . . A book which should be read by every intelligent American." -New York Times "In the field of literary autobiography, it stands practically alone in America." -The Nation "The voice of the soliloquist . . . amplifies the drama of A Story Te....[more] |
1978
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2010
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2009
| There is a story.-I cannot tell it.-I have no words. The story is almost forgotten but sometimes I remember. |
1981
| Published two years after the innovative, influential 1919 masterpieceWinesburg, Ohio, this collection of short stories solidified the author's reputation as a major American writer. These stories explore intriguing psychological depths, redolent with personal epiphanies, erotic undercurrents, and sudden eruptions of passion among seemingly repressed, inarticulate Midwesterners. |
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