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Winesburg, Ohio

Text and Criticism

By Sherwood Anderson
Edited by John H. Ferres

By Sherwood Anderson
Edited by John H. Ferres

By Sherwood Anderson
Introduction by Malcolm Cowley

By Sherwood Anderson
Introduction by Malcolm Cowley

By Sherwood Anderson
Introduction by Malcolm Cowley

By Sherwood Anderson
Introduction by Malcolm Cowley

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Aug 01, 1996 | ISBN 9780140247794

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    About Winesburg, Ohio

    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.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About Winesburg, Ohio

    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.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About Winesburg, Ohio

    Published in 1919, Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson’s masterpiece, a work in which he achieved the goal to which he believed all true writers should aspire: to see and feel “all of life within.” In a perfectly imagined world, an archetypal small American town, he reveals the hidden passions that turn ordinary lives into unforgettable ones. Unified by the recurring presence of young George Willard, and played out against the backdrop of Winesburg, Anderson’s loosely connected chapters, or stories, coalesce into a powerful novel.

    In such tales as “Hands,” the portrayal of a rural berry picker still haunted by the accusations of homosexuality that ended his teaching career, Anderson’s vision is as acute today as it was over eighty-five years ago. His intuitive ability to home in on examples of timeless, human conflicts—a workingman deciding if he should marry the woman who is to bear his child, an unhappy housewife who seeks love from the town’s doctor, an unmarried high school teacher sexually attracted to a pupil—makes this book not only immensely readable but also deeply meaningful. An important influence on Faulkner, Hemingway, and others who were drawn to Anderson’s innovative format and psychological insights, Winesburg, Ohio deserves a place among the front ranks of our nation’s finest literary achievements.

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    About Sherwood Anderson

    Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) spent most of his boyhood in Clyde, Ohio, the model for Winesburg, Ohio. And like the central figure of that work, Anderson left small-town life behind after his mother’s death, when he was nineteen. After serving in… More about Sherwood Anderson

    About Sherwood Anderson

    Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) spent most of his boyhood in Clyde, Ohio, the model for Winesburg, Ohio. And like the central figure of that work, Anderson left small-town life behind after his mother’s death, when he was nineteen. After serving in… More about Sherwood Anderson

    About Sherwood Anderson

    Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) spent most of his boyhood in Clyde, Ohio, the model for Winesburg, Ohio. And like the central figure of that work, Anderson left small-town life behind after his mother’s death, when he was nineteen. After serving in… More about Sherwood Anderson

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $22.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Aug 01, 1996 | 544 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140247794

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Paperback | $10.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Sep 01, 1992 | 256 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140186550

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Sep 01, 1992 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9781101191958

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    Praise

    "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

    Table Of Contents

    Winesburg, OhioPreface to the First Edition
    Preface to the Revised Edition
    Chronology
    Anderson on Winesburg, Ohio (from his Memoirs and Letters): Language and Form / Winesburg and Its People / Reception
    I. Winesburg, Ohio: The Text
    A Note on the Text, by Malcolm Cowley

    II. The Reviewers
    The New Republic, June 25, 1919: M. A.
    The Chicago Evening Post, June 20, 1919: LLEWELLYN JONES
    Smart Set, August 1919: H. L. MENCKEN
    The Bookman, August 1919: H. W. BOYNTON
    The Springfield Republican, July 20, 1919
    The New Statesman, July 22, 1922: REBECCA WEST

    III. The Critics
    WILLIAM L. PHILLIPS, How Sherwood Anderson Wrote Winesburg, Ohio
    WALTER B. RIDEOUT, The Simplicity of Winesburg, Ohio
    JARVIS A. THURSTON, Technique in Winesburg, Ohio
    ROGER ASSELINEAU, Language and Style in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio
    MALCOLM COWLEY, Introduction to Winesburg, Ohio
    WALDO FRANK, Winesburg, Ohio After Twenty Years
    JOHN S. REIST, JR., An Ellipse Becomes a Circle: The Developing Unity of Winesburg, Ohio
    EDWIN FUSSELL, Winesburg, Ohio: Art and Isolation
    DAVID STOUCK, Winesburg, Ohio as a Dance of Death
    IRVING HOWE, The Book of the Grotesque
    CHARLES CHILD WALCUTT, Naturalism in Winesburg, Ohio
    EILEEN BALDESHWILER, Sherwood Anderson and the Lyric Story
    SALLY ADAIR RIGSBEE, The Feminine in Winesburg, Ohio
    MARTIN BIDNEY, Anderson and the Androgyne: “Something More Than Man or Woman”
    JOHN H. FERRES, The Nostalgia of Winesburg, Ohio
    LIONEL TRILLING, Sherwood Anderson
    E. SAN JUAN, JR., Vision and Reality: A Reconsideration of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio
    JOHN T. FLANAGAN, Hemingway’s Debt to Sherwood Anderson
    WILLIAM FAULKNER, Sherwood Anderson: An Appreciation

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