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

Author: Sherwood Anderson

Narrator: various readers

Unabridged: 7 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2005

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Through twentythree connected short stories, the author looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburgs population are seen through the eyes of a young reporternarrator, George Willard. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virginity, wealth and poverty, thrift and profligacy, carelessness and abandon.

About Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was born in Camden, Ohio. Following a brief stint in the Spanish American War, he started a family and founded a business-both of which he abruptly abandoned at the age of thirty-six to pursue his life-long dream of writing. His simple and direct writing style, with which he portrayed important moments in the lives of his characters, influenced both Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. His most notable works include Winesburg, Ohio, Triumph of the Egg, Horses and Men, and A Story Teller's Story.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

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 s.penkevich

‘Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.’ When you stop and listen, life is a brilliant cacophony of love and pain, where we are all struggling to shed the shackles of loneliness and stand full and actualized in a society that never bothers to truly look into our hearts. Sherwood Ander......more

Goodreads review by Michael

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

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