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Winesburg, Ohio (Penguin Modern Classics)

Winesburg, Ohio (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Malcolm Cowley (Introduction), Malcolm Cowley (Introduction), Sherwood Anderson (Author)

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    Paperback 1993

    $11.25

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    Paperback 1976

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Synopsis

Anderson profoundly changed the American short story, transforming it from light, popular entertainment into literature of the highest quality. His art belonged as much to an oral as a written tradition, and, as this collection shows, the best of his stories echo the language and the pace of a man talking to his friends. They explore with penetrating compassion the isolation of the individual and capture the emotional undercurrents hidden beneath ordinary events.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: Reissue
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 28 Jan 1993
ISBN 10: 0140186557
ISBN 13: 9780140186550

Media Reviews
When he calls himself a 'poor scribbler' don't believe him. He is not a poor scribbler . . . he is a very great writer. --Ernest Hemingway

Winesburg, Ohio, when it first appeared, kept me up a whole night in a steady crescendo of emotion. --Hart Crane

As a rule, first books show more bravado than anything else, unless it be tediousness. But there is neither of these qualities in Winesburg, Ohio. . . . These people live and breathe: they are beautiful. --E. M. Forster

Winesburg, Ohio is an extraordinarily good book. But it is not fiction. It is poetry. --Rebecca West

Author Bio
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) published 23 books in his lifetime, including the acclaimed Winesburg, Ohio (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics). Charles E. Modlin is Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic and a trustee of the Sherwood Andersonliterary estate.