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Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life

Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life

by Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

BookID: 416

Language:English

Contents:The book of the grotesque -- Hands -- Paper pills -- Mother -- The philosopher -- Nobody knows -- Godliness -- A man of ideas -- Adventure -- Respectability -- The thinker -- Tandy -- The strength of God -- The teacher -- Loneliness -- An awakening -- "Queer" -- The untold lie -- Drink -- Death -- Sophistication -- Departure.

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 79.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

City and town life -- FictionPastoral fictionOhio -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Description

"Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life" by Sherwood Anderson is a short story cycle published in 1919. Set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio, the work follows George Willard from childhood to young adulthood as he prepares to leave his hometown. Through twenty-two interconnected stories, Anderson explores the inner lives of various townspeople, each struggling with loneliness and isolation in pre-industrial small-town America. Known for its psychological depth and plainspoken prose, the work is considered an early example of Modernist literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

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