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Windy McPherson’s Son (1916) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson.
Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson’s debut novel is a
coming of age story that explores themes of unhappiness and
infidelity while illustrating the frustrations of the son of an
abusive father. Although he is known today for his story collection
Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist fiction admired for
its plainspoken language and psychological detail, Anderson’s
Windy McPherson’s Son is a powerful work of fiction that helped
establish him as a leading realist writer of his generation. “At
the beginning of the long twilight of a summer evening, Sam
McPherson, a tall big-boned boy of thirteen, with brown hair, black
eyes, and an amusing little habit of tilting his chin in the air as
he walked, came upon the platform of the little corn-shipping town
of Caxton in Iowa.” With a cigar in his hand and a bundle of
newspapers under his arm, the young Sam McPherson appears both
overly proud and ambitious for his age. Those that know him,
however, understand that he has no choice. Left to fend for himself
by an alcoholic father, Sam dreams of making a name for himself and
escaping the small town of his birth. When an ill-fated affair with
an older teacher leaves him disgraced, McPherson abandons his
father for Chicago, where he finds work as a purchaser of farming
equipment. Soon, he falls in love with his boss’ daughter, the
beautiful Sue Rainey. Windy McPherson’s Son is a story of the
American Dream, for all of its difficult truths and convenient
fictions. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood Anderson’s Windy
McPherson’s Son is a classic of American literature reimagined
for modern readers.
Windy McPherson's Son (1916) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both
fictional and autobiographical, Anderson's debut novel is a coming
of age story that explores themes of unhappiness and infidelity
while illustrating the frustrations of the son of an abusive
father. Although he is known today for his story collection
Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist fiction admired for
its plainspoken language and psychological detail, Anderson's Windy
McPherson's Son is a powerful work of fiction that helped establish
him as a leading realist writer of his generation. "At the
beginning of the long twilight of a summer evening, Sam McPherson,
a tall big-boned boy of thirteen, with brown hair, black eyes, and
an amusing little habit of tilting his chin in the air as he
walked, came upon the platform of the little corn-shipping town of
Caxton in Iowa." With a cigar in his hand and a bundle of
newspapers under his arm, the young Sam McPherson appears both
overly proud and ambitious for his age. Those that know him,
however, understand that he has no choice. Left to fend for himself
by an alcoholic father, Sam dreams of making a name for himself and
escaping the small town of his birth. When an ill-fated affair with
an older teacher leaves him disgraced, McPherson abandons his
father for Chicago, where he finds work as a purchaser of farming
equipment. Soon, he falls in love with his boss' daughter, the
beautiful Sue Rainey. Windy McPherson's Son is a story of the
American Dream, for all of its difficult truths and convenient
fictions. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood Anderson's Windy
McPherson's Son is a classic of American literature reimagined for
modern readers.
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Marching Men (Paperback)
Sherwood Anderson; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R220
Discovery Miles 2 200
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Marching Men (1917) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional
and autobiographical, Anderson's second novel is a coming of age
story that explores the individual and collective identities
shaping American life. Although he is known today for his story
collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist
literature admired for its plainspoken language and psychological
detail, Anderson's Marching Men is a powerful work of fiction that
helped establish him as a leading realist writer of his generation.
"In a country of so many varied climates and occupations as America
it is absurd to talk of an American type. The country is like a
vast disorganised undisciplined army, leaderless, uninspired, going
in route-step along the road to they know not what end." At a young
age, Norman McGregor, a misfit dreamer, knows this to be true of
his country. Fourteen-year-old Norman, ironically named "Beaut" for
his homely appearance, works alongside his mother at a bakery in
the town of Coal Creek. When frustration over unpaid debts leads
him to close the bakery, a group of disgruntled miners nearly
destroys his family's only source of income. At the last second, a
group of soldiers marches in to protect them, inspiring Norman with
a sense of unity. As a young man, he leaves his hometown for
Chicago, where he develops a relationship with a woman who
introduces him to politics and labor organizing. Unable to shake
the memory of the marching soldiers, he dedicates his life to
collective empowerment. Marching Men is a story of the American
Dream, for all of its difficult truths and convenient fictions.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Sherwood Anderson's Marching Men is a
classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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Winesburg, Ohio (Hardcover)
Sherwood Anderson; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R446
R367
Discovery Miles 3 670
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Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is a collection of interrelated short
stories about small-town life in the American Midwest by author
Sherwood Anderson. No doubt inspired by his own decision to leave
Ohio for Chicago in order to launch his career as a professional
writer, these stories relate a firsthand understanding of the
concerns, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives
of many Americans in the early-twentieth century. A young man
struggles to express himself, and, consumed with paranoia and
loneliness, turns to violence as his only outlet. An elderly mother
recalls visions of her youth and memories of lost love as she faces
death alone. A reserved woman inexplicably runs naked into the
rainy streets of her town. Winesburg, Ohio is built on such stories
as these, dissecting with painstaking detail the inner
psychological torments of a small town's residents who remain, in
the end, unmistakably human. Their longing and loneliness bring
them together as much as they define what drives them apart, but
ultimately it is silence and suffering which prevail. Throughout
these stories, the life and development of George Willard is told
in fragments, examining the extent to which we are formed in the
image of others as well as the lengths to which one young man will
go to avoid the fate he is born to. Winesburg, Ohio was an instant
classic, a work which came not only to define Anderson's career,
but to inspire generations of writers and readers to come.
Winesburg, Ohio is recognized today as a pioneering work of
Modernist fiction that precipitated a sea change in not only short
story writing, but the entirety of American literature. Anderson's
style is admired for its plainspoken language and psychological
detail, and he was one of the first American authors to incorporate
ideas from Freudian analysis within his work. Both darkly
pessimistic and ultimately hopeful, Winesburg, Ohio endures because
it captures the humanity of American life while offering to readers
a sense of the promise of change. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood
Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio is a classic of American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is a collection of interrelated short
stories about small-town life in the American Midwest by author
Sherwood Anderson. No doubt inspired by his own decision to leave
Ohio for Chicago in order to launch his career as a professional
writer, these stories relate a firsthand understanding of the
concerns, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives
of many Americans in the early-twentieth century. A young man
struggles to express himself, and, consumed with paranoia and
loneliness, turns to violence as his only outlet. An elderly mother
recalls visions of her youth and memories of lost love as she faces
death alone. A reserved woman inexplicably runs naked into the
rainy streets of her town. Winesburg, Ohio is built on such stories
as these, dissecting with painstaking detail the inner
psychological torments of a small town's residents who remain, in
the end, unmistakably human. Their longing and loneliness bring
them together as much as they define what drives them apart, but
ultimately it is silence and suffering which prevail. Throughout
these stories, the life and development of George Willard is told
in fragments, examining the extent to which we are formed in the
image of others as well as the lengths to which one young man will
go to avoid the fate he is born to. Winesburg, Ohio was an instant
classic, a work which came not only to define Anderson's career,
but to inspire generations of writers and readers to come.
Winesburg, Ohio is recognized today as a pioneering work of
Modernist fiction that precipitated a sea change in not only short
story writing, but the entirety of American literature. Anderson's
style is admired for its plainspoken language and psychological
detail, and he was one of the first American authors to incorporate
ideas from Freudian analysis within his work. Both darkly
pessimistic and ultimately hopeful, Winesburg, Ohio endures because
it captures the humanity of American life while offering to readers
a sense of the promise of change. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood
Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio is a classic of American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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Many Marriages (Paperback)
Sherwood Anderson; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R219
Discovery Miles 2 190
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Many Marriages (1923) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by
his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to
establish himself as a professional writer, Anderson explores the
guilts, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives of
many Americans in the early-twentieth century. Although he is known
today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work
of Modernist fiction admired for its plainspoken language and
psychological detail, Anderson's Many Marriages is a masterpiece in
its own right. "There was a man named Webster lived in a town of
twenty-five thousand people in the state of Wisconsin. He had a
wife named Mary and a daughter named Jane and he was himself a
fairly prosperous manufacturer of washing machines. [...] [A]t odd
moments, when he was on a train going some place or perhaps on
Sunday afternoons in the summer when he went alone to the deserted
office of the factory and sat for several hours looking out through
a window and along a railroad track, he gave way to dreams." On an
otherwise average day in his office at an Ohio washing machine
factory, John Webster finds himself dreaming. He contemplates an
affair with his young secretary, hears a number of voices in his
head, and watches an angelic woman drift down the river on a raft
beneath the afternoon sun. When he returns home after work, he
struggles to look his wife and daughter in the face, feeling deep
in his heart he will have to leave them soon. Despite spending his
whole life in service of the mundane-building his business,
supporting his family, securing his finances-Webster knows he can
no longer live an impassionate life. He knows he must reinvent
himself from scratch. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood
Anderson's Many Marriages is a classic of American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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Dark Laughter (Hardcover)
Sherwood Anderson; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R404
Discovery Miles 4 040
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Dark Laughter (1925) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by
his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to
establish himself as a professional writer, Anderson explores the
guilts, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives of
many Americans in the early-twentieth century. Although he is known
today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work
of Modernist fiction admired for its plainspoken language and
psychological detail, Anderson's Dark Laughter was his only
bestseller. Inspired by the stream of consciousness style of James
Joyce's Ulysses, Anderson produced a novel that remains
controversial for its depictions of race, class, and sexuality.
>"Bruce Dudley stood near a window that was covered with flecks
of paint and through which could be faintly seen, first a pile of
empty boxes, then a more or less littered factory yard running down
to a steep bluff, and beyond the brown waters of the Ohio River."
Bruce, a factory worker in Old Harbor, Indiana, is your average
working man. He lives a simple life, keeps a low profile, spends
his money at the bar with his friends, and tries not to get fired.
As far as anyone knows, there is nothing special about him
whatsoever; he is a drifter who found his way to Old Harbor by
chance and settled down to make himself some money. But Bruce was
born in Old Harbor; raised on its streets and educated in its
schools, he lived most of his life by another name: John Stockton,
Indiana native turned Chicago reporter. Married with kids, he was
happy as far as anyone could tell. Up until the day he left, he was
still John Stockton, but the change that came over him late in life
was too great to resist. He needed a new name, a new life. He
wanted to start over in the place where he began. When an
opportunity comes to work as a gardener for the factory owner's
wife, Bruce soon finds it impossible to resist her brazen advances.
Dark Laughter is a tale of guilt, identity, and shame from master
storyteller Sherwood Anderson. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood
Anderson's Dark Laughter is a classic of American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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Many Marriages (Hardcover)
Sherwood Anderson; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R393
Discovery Miles 3 930
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Many Marriages (1923) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by
his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to
establish himself as a professional writer, Anderson explores the
guilts, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives of
many Americans in the early-twentieth century. Although he is known
today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work
of Modernist fiction admired for its plainspoken language and
psychological detail, Anderson's Many Marriages is a masterpiece in
its own right. "There was a man named Webster lived in a town of
twenty-five thousand people in the state of Wisconsin. He had a
wife named Mary and a daughter named Jane and he was himself a
fairly prosperous manufacturer of washing machines. [...] [A]t odd
moments, when he was on a train going some place or perhaps on
Sunday afternoons in the summer when he went alone to the deserted
office of the factory and sat for several hours looking out through
a window and along a railroad track, he gave way to dreams." On an
otherwise average day in his office at an Ohio washing machine
factory, John Webster finds himself dreaming. He contemplates an
affair with his young secretary, hears a number of voices in his
head, and watches an angelic woman drift down the river on a raft
beneath the afternoon sun. When he returns home after work, he
struggles to look his wife and daughter in the face, feeling deep
in his heart he will have to leave them soon. Despite spending his
whole life in service of the mundane-building his business,
supporting his family, securing his finances-Webster knows he can
no longer live an impassionate life. He knows he must reinvent
himself from scratch. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood
Anderson's Many Marriages is a classic of American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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Marching Men (Hardcover)
Sherwood Anderson; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R395
Discovery Miles 3 950
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Marching Men (1917) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional
and autobiographical, Anderson’s second novel is a coming of age
story that explores the individual and collective identities
shaping American life. Although he is known today for his story
collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist
literature admired for its plainspoken language and psychological
detail, Anderson’s Marching Men is a powerful work of fiction
that helped establish him as a leading realist writer of his
generation. “In a country of so many varied climates and
occupations as America it is absurd to talk of an American type.
The country is like a vast disorganised undisciplined army,
leaderless, uninspired, going in route-step along the road to they
know not what end.” At a young age, Norman McGregor, a misfit
dreamer, knows this to be true of his country. Fourteen-year-old
Norman, ironically named “Beaut” for his homely appearance,
works alongside his mother at a bakery in the town of Coal Creek.
When frustration over unpaid debts leads him to close the bakery, a
group of disgruntled miners nearly destroys his family’s only
source of income. At the last second, a group of soldiers marches
in to protect them, inspiring Norman with a sense of unity. As a
young man, he leaves his hometown for Chicago, where he develops a
relationship with a woman who introduces him to politics and labor
organizing. Unable to shake the memory of the marching soldiers, he
dedicates his life to collective empowerment. Marching Men is a
story of the American Dream, for all of its difficult truths and
convenient fictions. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood
Anderson’s Marching Men is a classic of American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid
overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on
mass communication and society and how this research fits into
larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection
features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the
Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the
Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles
are reproduced in their entirety to preserve the historical flavor
and texture of the original works. Topics include popular theater,
yellow journalism, cinema, books, public relations, political and
military propaganda, advertising, opinion polling, photography, the
avant-garde, popular magazines, comics, the urban press, radio
drama, soap opera, popular music, and television drama and news.
This text is ideal for upper-level courses in mass communication
and media theory, media and society, mass communication effects,
and mass media history.
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid
overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on
mass communication and society and how this research fits into
larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection
features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the
Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the
Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles
are reproduced in their entirety to preserve the historical flavor
and texture of the original works. Topics include popular theater,
yellow journalism, cinema, books, public relations, political and
military propaganda, advertising, opinion polling, photography, the
avant-garde, popular magazines, comics, the urban press, radio
drama, soap opera, popular music, and television drama and news.
This text is ideal for upper-level courses in mass communication
and media theory, media and society, mass communication effects,
and mass media history.
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Dark Laughter (Paperback)
Sherwood Anderson; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R222
Discovery Miles 2 220
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Dark Laughter (1925) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by
his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to
establish himself as a professional writer, Anderson explores the
guilts, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives of
many Americans in the early-twentieth century. Although he is known
today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work
of Modernist fiction admired for its plainspoken language and
psychological detail, Anderson's Dark Laughter was his only
bestseller. Inspired by the stream of consciousness style of James
Joyce's Ulysses, Anderson produced a novel that remains
controversial for its depictions of race, class, and sexuality.
>"Bruce Dudley stood near a window that was covered with flecks
of paint and through which could be faintly seen, first a pile of
empty boxes, then a more or less littered factory yard running down
to a steep bluff, and beyond the brown waters of the Ohio River."
Bruce, a factory worker in Old Harbor, Indiana, is your average
working man. He lives a simple life, keeps a low profile, spends
his money at the bar with his friends, and tries not to get fired.
As far as anyone knows, there is nothing special about him
whatsoever; he is a drifter who found his way to Old Harbor by
chance and settled down to make himself some money. But Bruce was
born in Old Harbor; raised on its streets and educated in its
schools, he lived most of his life by another name: John Stockton,
Indiana native turned Chicago reporter. Married with kids, he was
happy as far as anyone could tell. Up until the day he left, he was
still John Stockton, but the change that came over him late in life
was too great to resist. He needed a new name, a new life. He
wanted to start over in the place where he began. When an
opportunity comes to work as a gardener for the factory owner's
wife, Bruce soon finds it impossible to resist her brazen advances.
Dark Laughter is a tale of guilt, identity, and shame from master
storyteller Sherwood Anderson. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood
Anderson's Dark Laughter is a classic of American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
This timeless cycle of short stories lays bare the life of a small town in the American Midwest. The central character is George Willard, a young reporter on the Winesburg Eagle to whom, one by one, the town's inhabitants confide their hopes, their dreams, and their fears. The town of friendly but solitary people comes to life as Anderson's special talent exposes the emotional undercurrents that bind its people together.
Sherwood Anderson's short stories, beautifully crafted and
evocative of time and place, were hugely influential in their day.
The title story in this collection, 'Death in the Woods', is widely
regarded as a masterpiece - the narrator looks back at an incident
in his childhood where an old woman dies in the cold - in life she
was destined to feed those around her, after her death, he feeds
from her too.
There is a story. - I cannot tell it. - I have no words. The story
is almost forgotten but sometimes I remember. The story concerns
three men in a house in a street. If I could say the words I would
sing the story. I would whisper it into the ears of women, of
mothers. I would run through the streets saying it over and over.
My tongue would be torn loose - it would rattle against my teeth.
The three men are in a room in the house. One is young and
dandified. He continually laughs. There is a second man who has a
long white beard. He is consumed with doubt but occasionally his
doubt leaves him and he sleeps.
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Poor White (Paperback)
Sherwood Anderson; Edited by 1stworld Library
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R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support
our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online
at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Hugh McVey was born in a little hole
of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the
Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. It was a miserable
place in which to be born. With the exception of a narrow strip of
black mud along the river, the land for ten miles back from the
town - called in derision by river men "Mudcat Landing" - was
almost entirely worthless and unproductive. The soil, yellow,
shallow and stony, was tilled, in Hugh's time, by a race of long
gaunt men who seemed as exhausted and no-account as the land on
which they lived. They were chronically dis-couraged, and the
merchants and artisans of the town were in the same state. The
merchants, who ran their stores - poor tumble-down ramshackle
affairs - on the credit system, could not get pay for the goods
they handed out over their counters and the artisans, the
shoemakers, carpenters and harnessmakers, could not get pay for the
work they did. Only the town's two saloons prospered. The saloon
keepers sold their wares for cash and, as the men of the town and
the farmers who drove into town felt that without drink life was
unbearable, cash always could be found for the purpose of getting
drunk.
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support
our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online
at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - There is a story. - I cannot tell
it. - I have no words. The story is almost forgotten but sometimes
I remember. The story concerns three men in a house in a street. If
I could say the words I would sing the story. I would whisper it
into the ears of women, of mothers. I would run through the streets
saying it over and over. My tongue would be torn loose - it would
rattle against my teeth. The three men are in a room in the house.
One is young and dandified. He continually laughs. There is a
second man who has a long white beard. He is consumed with doubt
but occasionally his doubt leaves him and he sleeps.
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Winesburg, Ohio (Paperback)
Sherwood Anderson; Edited by Glen A. Love
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R249
R202
Discovery Miles 2 020
Save R47 (19%)
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There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over
which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is
Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories
concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nineteenth
century. At the centre is George Willard, a young reporter who
becomes the confidant of the town's `grotesques' - solitary figures
unable to communicate with others. George is their conduit for
expression and solace from loneliness, but he has his own longings
which eventually draw him away from home to seek a career in the
city. He carries with him the dreams and unuttered words of
remarkable characters such as Wing Biddlebaum, the disgraced former
teacher, and the story-telling Doctor Parcival. The book has
influenced many American writers, including ernest hemingway,
William Faulkner, John Updike, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol
Oates. It reshaped the development of the modern short story,
turning the genre away from an emphasis upon plot towards a
capability for illuminating the emotional lives of ordinary people.
This new edition corrects errors in earlier editions and takes into
account major criticism and textual scholarship of the last several
decades. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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