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Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

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  1. Book of the Grotesque, The

    8:08

  2. Hands

    15:22

  3. Paper pills

    7:20

  4. Mother

    23:43

  5. Philosopher, The

    15:17

  6. Nobody knows

    8:26

  7. Godliness

    23:23

  8. Godliness, Part II, also concerning Jesse Bentley

    23:20

  9. Godliness, Part III Surrender, concerning Louise Bentley

    19:01

  10. Godliness, Part IV Terror, concerning David Hardy

    12:45

  11. Man of Ideas, A

    17:50

  12. Adventure

    17:32

  13. Respectability

    16:00

  14. Thinker, The

    32:36

  15. Tandy

    7:27

  16. Strength of God, The

    18:32

  17. Teacher, The

    19:40

  18. Loneliness

    22:27

  19. Awakening, An

    18:12

  20. Queer

    20:38

  21. Untold Lie, The

    16:55

  22. Drink

    19:58

  23. Death

    26:33

  24. Sophistication

    23:27

  25. Departure

    6:36

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In twenty-two linked stories, Sherwood Anderson maps the inner lives of a small Midwestern town and the quiet desperation running beneath its ordinary surface. The book circles around George Willard, a young newspaper reporter who listens as neighbors, shopkeepers, and lonely eccentrics confide the longings and disappointments they cannot say aloud to anyone else. Anderson called these figures grotesques, people warped by a single truth they clung to too hard. Rather than a plot, the collection builds a cumulative portrait of isolation, thwarted desire, and the moment a young man decides to leave home for good. Its plain, aching prose reshaped American fiction and left a mark on Hemingway and Faulkner. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Tales and the Persons
  3. The Book of the Grotesque
  4. Hands
  5. Paper Pills
  6. Mother
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Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson (1876 to 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer who once walked away from a paint business to write. Best known for Winesburg, Ohio, he influenced a generation of younger authors, among them Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.

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Pages
188
Language
English
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