Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
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Winesburg, Ohio

Author: Sherwood Anderson

Narrator: Terry Bregy

Unabridged: 6 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/22/2012

Synopsis

Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of stories set in a fictitious town in the 1890s, has long been considered Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece. This groundbreaking work set the stage for a new era in writing, greatly influencing Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck, among many others. Anderson wrote simply, brilliantly crafting a work that dared to examine the darker impulses of human nature. Considered by many at the time of publication in 1919 to be a scandalous work, Winesburg, Ohio has nonetheless survived through the decades as one of the forerunners of modern fiction. Haunting and powerful, it draws listeners into the streets and houses of Winesburg—and into the darkly complex lives of each of Anderson's unforgettable "grotesques."

About Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) was born in Camden, Ohio. Largely self-educated, he worked at various trades while writing fiction in his spare time. For several years he worked as a copywriter in Chicago where he became part of the Chicago literary renaissance. As an author, he strongly influenced American short-story writing, and his best-known book, Winesburg, Ohio (1919), brought him recognition as a leader in the revolt against established literary traditions.

About Terry Bregy

Terry Bregy is a narrator of children’s and young adult books. Some of his published credits include Morning Girl, Paddle-to-the-Sea, and Across Five Aprils.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on June 23, 2018

zut, alors! i don't even know where to begin. i had such a complicated reaction to this book. am i the only person who didn't find this depressing?? this book is life - it is tender and gentle and melancholy and real. not everything works out according to plan here, but what ever does? that's not ne......more

Goodreads review by Michael on September 06, 2017

A beautiful, melancholy song to small-town loneliness and despair--to the fragile bonds that tie neighbors together and the vivid lives and heartfelt personal dramas that pulse beneath the surface of ordinary affairs. This was once a book I carried with me everywhere, a book I tried (and failed) to......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on September 01, 2020

Holy Moley! Virginia Woolf finds the very caverns leading to hell; Sherwood Anderson makes miscellaneous dips into the very depths of actual fire... & the residents of Winesburg all live there. They are the ghosts of the living. Anecdotes in Winesburg (devoid of time or protagonist) are juicy with i......more

Goodreads review by Jon on May 31, 2023

Open hearts - closed doors: read this book along with Spoon River Anthology (Edgar Lee Masters) and Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Thornton Wilder) to get the zeitgeist of dawning industrialization as it carves canyons of alienation through small towns. A 'proto' examination of the gentrification w......more

Goodreads review by David on January 17, 2010

Winesburg, Ohio, is certainly the geographical ancestor of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, Washington, and Lumberton, North Carolina (Blue Velvet) -- not so much for its omens of severed ears and one-armed men, but for its wealth of turbulent emotion (e.g., rage, despair, lust, contempt... all the good on......more

Quotes

“A work of love, an attempt to break down the walls that divide one person from another, and also, in its own fashion, a celebration of small-town life in the lost days of goodwill and innocence.” Malcolm Cowley

“He was the father of my whole generation of writers.” William Faulkner

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