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Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
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Description for Winesburg, Ohio
Paperback. Editor(s): Love, Glen A. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199540723
SKU
V9780199540723
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Ref
99-5
About Sherwood Anderson
Glen A. Love is Professor of English at the University of Oregon. He is the author of New Americans: The Westerner and the Modern Experience in the American Novel, Babbitt: An American Life, and other works on American literature. He has taught in Germany, at the universities of Regensburg and Tübingen, under Fulbright grants.
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