Winesburg, Ohio

By Anderson, Sherwood

Book Id: WPLBN0002954396
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File Size: 211.87 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Winesburg, Ohio
Author:	Anderson, Sherwood
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Short stories
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Winesburg, Ohio; by Sherwood Anderson
Historic Publication Date:	1919
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Anderson, B. S. (1919). Winesburg, Ohio. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a series of loosely related character studies of the inhabitants of a fictional Midwestern town that together form a novel of unusual unity and vision. The inarticulate and lonely citizens of Winesburg, each with his or her own secret tale to tell, frequently relate those tales to, or through their interactions with, the character of George Willard, a young Winesburg citizen on the cusp of manhood with dreams of becoming a writer. Thus Winesburg tells the story of the townspeople's loneliness and alienation in parallel with the tale of George's own coming of age. The citizens of Winesburg are described obliquely as grotesques, but as the introductory chapter makes clear, The grotesques were not all horrible. Some were amusing, some almost beautiful . . . (Description by Stewart Wills)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Short stories