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Sherwood Anderson
Collects stories that capture the emotional undercurrents hidden beneath ordinary events.
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Winesburg, Ohio is a short story cycle by the Sherwood Anderson. The work is revolves around the life of George Willard, from the time he was a child to his…
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"Marching Men" by Sherwood Anderson is a powerful depiction of the struggles and aspirations of ordinary Americans in the early 20th century. Set against the backdrop of industrialization and social…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Sherwood Anderson was a 20th century American writer of short stories. Anderson grew up in Ohio and after college became a copywriter in Chicago. He is most famous for his…
Dark Laughter, Sherwood Anderson’s best selling novel, is influenced by Joyce’s Ulysses. It deals with the new sexual freedom of the 1920s and provides a unique fictional window into that…
Cycle of interrelated stories that sympathetically view lonely and frustrated individuals in a midwestern town.
Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, revisits a classic, twentieth-century American text. Scholars from around the world look closely at gender relations, masculinity, place, the nature of community, and the elusive American…
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Originally published: New Orleans: Pelican Bookshop Press, 1926.
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A Study Guide for Sherwood Anderson’s Hands, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Sherwood Anderson’s Sophistication, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Sherwood Anderson’s The Egg, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for…
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Set against the backdrop of a fictional 1890s town, Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio depicts the not-so-simple lives of its residents as seen through the eyes of George Willard, a young…
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…
It is evening and the people of Chicago go home from work. Clatter, clatter, clatter, go the heels on the hard pavements, jaws wag, the wind blows and dirt drifts…
A collection of short stories set in the imaginary small town of Winesburg, Ohio, unified by the presence of Winesburg Eagle reporter George Willard.
Sherwood Anderson's place is unquestionably among the three or four titans of American letters. He is already in interval part of the history of American literature. Dark Laughter is the…
A Story Tellers Story TO ALFRED STIEGLITZ, who has been more than father to so many puzzled, wistful children of the arts in this big, noisy, growing and groping America…
A celebration of small-town life in America at the dawn of the 20th century. This timeless cycle of short stories lays bare the life of a small town in the…
There is a story.-I cannot tell it.-I have no words. The story is almost forgotten but sometimes I remember.
There was a man named Webster who lived in a town of twenty-five thousand people in the state of Wisconsin. He had a wife named Mary and a daughter named…
Sherwood Anderson had the patience not just of the artist but of the religious man: he knew that there was bright shiny ore beneath the scabby crust. - Henry Miller
Reproduction of the original: Windy McPhersons Son by Sherwood Anderson
This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1921 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Triumph of the Egg: A Book…
