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Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by: Sherwood Anderson ( NOVEL )
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Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by: Sherwood Anderson ( NOVEL ) Paperback - 2017

by Sherwood Anderson


About this book

Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life was published in 1919.  This book is Sherwood Anderson's most well-known, and it is now considered one of the earliest examples of Modernist literature.

The book is a short story cycle, a collection of 22 stories that all take place in the fictional Winesburg, Ohio.  The gloomy tales paint a morose portrait of small town life in the US before the industrial boom.

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From the publisher

Winesburg, Ohio (full title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The work is structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man. It is set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio (not to be confused with the actual Winesburg), which is based loosely on the author's childhood memories of Clyde, Ohio. Mostly written from late 1915 to early 1916, with a few stories completed closer to publication, they were "...conceived as complementary parts of a whole, centered in the background of a single community."[1] The book consists of twenty-two stories, with the first story, "The Book of the Grotesque", serving as an introduction. Each of the stories shares a specific character's past and present struggle to overcome the loneliness and isolation that seems to permeate the town. Stylistically, because of its emphasis on the psychological insights of characters over plot, and plain-spoken prose, Winesburg, Ohio is known as one of the earliest works of Modernist literature

First Edition Identification

A number of the stories that appear in the book were previously published in several literary magazines and journals, including The Masses, Little Review, and Seven Arts. They were finally published in book form by B.W. Huebsch in 1919.

The First State of the first edition is identifiable by a few points:  Bound in yellow cloth with a map printed on the end paper, the first state had a typo "lay" on page 86, line 5 and the word "the" was printed with broken type face on pager 251, line 3.

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  • Title Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by: Sherwood Anderson ( NOVEL )
  • Author Sherwood Anderson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 116
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Date 2017-02-13
  • ISBN 9781543084801 / 154308480X
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 8 x 0.24 in (25.40 x 20.32 x 0.61 cm)
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