Winesburg, Ohio

by Anderson, Sherwood; Love, Glen A.

• ISBN13: 9780192839770
• ISBN10: 0192839772
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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.

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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