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Winesburg, Ohio

By Sherwood Anderson
Introduction by John Updike

By Sherwood Anderson
Introduction by John Updike

By Sherwood Anderson

By Sherwood Anderson

By Sherwood Anderson

By Sherwood Anderson

By Sherwood Anderson

By Sherwood Anderson

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Part of Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Part of Modern Library 100 Best Novels

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Mar 02, 1999 | ISBN 9780375753138

Mass Market Paperback $5.95

Mar 01, 1995 | ISBN 9780553214390

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Jun 24, 2008 | ISBN 9780553905199

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Nov 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780679641070

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    About Winesburg, Ohio

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

    Before Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fiction–evoking with lyrical simplicity quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women. In a bed, elevated so that he can peer out the window, an old writer contemplates the fluttering of his heart and considers, as if viewing a pageant, the inhabitants of a small midwestern town. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virginity, wealth and poverty, thrift and profligacy, carelessness and abandon. “Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America,” wrote H. L. Mencken. “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.”

    With Commentary by Sherwood Anderson, Rebecca West, and Hart Crane

    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.

    About Winesburg, Ohio

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

    “Here [is] a new order of short story,” said H.L. Mencken when Winesburg, Ohio was published in 1919.  ”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.”  Indeed, Sherwood Anderson’s timeless cycle of loosely connected tales–in which a young reporter named George Willard probes the hopes, dreams, and fears of the solitary people in a small Midwestern town at the turn of the century–embraced a new frankness and realism that ushered American literature into the modern age.  

    “There are moments in American life to which Anderson gave not only the first but the final expression,” wrote Malcolm Cowley.  ”Winesburg, Ohio is far from the pessimistic or morbidly sexual work it was once attacked for being.  Instead it is a work of love, an attempt to break down the walls of loneliness, and, in its own fashion, a celebration of small-town life in the lost days of good will and innocence.”

    About Winesburg, Ohio

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

    ‘Here [is] a new order of short story,’ said H. L. Mencken when Winesburg, Ohio was published in 1919. ‘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.’ Indeed, Sherwood Anderson’s timeless cycle of loosely connected tales–in which a young reporter named George Willard probes the hopes, dreams, and fears of the solitary people in a small Midwestern town at the turn of the century–embraced a new frankness and realism that ushered American literature into the modern age. ‘There are moments in American life to which Anderson gave not only the first but the final expression,’ wrote Malcolm Cowley. ‘Winesburg, Ohio is far from the pessimistic or morbidly sexual work it was once attacked for being. Instead it is a work of love, an attempt to break down the walls of loneliness, and, in its own fashion, a celebration of small-town life in the lost days of good will and innocence.’

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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

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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

    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Short Stories | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $10.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Mar 02, 1999 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375753138

    Category: Classic Fiction | Short Stories | Historical Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Mar 01, 1995 | 256 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553214390

    Category: Classic Fiction | Short Stories | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Jun 24, 2008 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780553905199

    Category: Classic Fiction | Short Stories | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $2.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 01, 2000 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780679641070

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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

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