Winesburg, Ohio
by Anderson, Sherwood; Cowley, MalcolmEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-09-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the center is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town's solitary figures. Anderson's stories influenced countless American writers including Hemingway, Faulkner, Updike, Oates and Carver. This new edition corrects errors made in earlier editions and takes into account major criticism and textual scholarship of the last several decades.
Author Biography
Born in 1876, Sherwood Anderson grew up in a small town in Ohio—an experience that was the basis of his greatest achievements as a writer. He served in the Spanish-American War, worked as an advertising man, and managed an Ohio paint factory before abandoning both job and family to embark on a literary career in Chicago. His first novel, Windy McPherson's Son, was published in 1916; his second, Marching Men, a characteristic study of the individual in conflict with industrial society, appeared in 1917. But it is Winesburg, Ohio (1919), with its disillusioned view of small-town lives, that is generally considered his masterpiece. Later novels—Poor White, Many Marriages, and Dark Laughter—continued to depict the spiritual poverty of the machine age. Anderson died in 1941.
Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989) a leadiing literary figure of his time, wrote numerous books of literary criticism, essays, and poetry.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. ix |
| The Tales and the Persons | |
| The Book of the Grotesque | p. 3 |
| Hands-concerning Wing Biddlebaum | p. 8 |
| Paper Pills-concerning Doctor Reefy | p. 16 |
| Mother-concerning Elizabeth Willard | p. 21 |
| The Philosopher-concerning Doctor Parcival | p. 31 |
| Nobody Knows-concerning Louise Trunnion | p. 40 |
| Godliness, a Tale in Four Parts | |
| Concerning Jesse Bentley | p. 45 |
| Also concerning Jesse Bentley | p. 55 |
| Surrender-concerning Louise Bentley | p. 68 |
| Terror-concerning David Hardy | p. 78 |
| A Man of Ideas-concerning Joe Welling | p. 84 |
| Adventure-concerning Alice Hindman | p. 94 |
| Respectability-concerning Wash Williams | p. 103 |
| The Thinker-concerning Seth Richmond | p. 111 |
| Tandy-concerning Tandy Hard | p. 127 |
| The Strength of God-concerning the Reverend Curtis Hartman | p. 131 |
| The Teacher-concerning Kate Swift | p. 141 |
| Loneliness-concerning Enoch Robinson | p. 151 |
| An Awakening-concerning Belle Carpenter | p. 163 |
| "Queer"-concerning Elmer Cowley | p. 174 |
| The Untold Lie-concerning Ray Pearson | p. 186 |
| Drink-concerning Tom Foster | p. 194 |
| Death-concerning Doctor Reefy and Elizabeth Willard | p. 205 |
| Sophistication-concerning Helen White | p. 218 |
| Departure-concerning George Willard | p. 229 |
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