Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
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Winesburg, Ohio
A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life

Unabridged: 7 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2003


Synopsis

Sherwood Anderson writes almost as if he were eavesdropping on the private domestic lives of a small Ohio town's inhabitants in the early 1900's. The central figure, George Willard, is a young budding journalist working for the local paper who allows the listener in on the latest gossip being circulated in this casual study of the insular Midwest, when America was still growing up.This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories, Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg’s population are seen through the eyes of a young reporter-narrator, George Willard. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virginity, wealth and poverty, thrift and profligacy, carelessness and abandon. With its simple and intense style, Winesburg, Ohio evokes the quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women.Table of Contents1. The Book of the Grotesque2. Hands-concerning Wing Biddlebaum3. Paper Pills-concerning Doctor Reefy4. Mother-concerning Elizabeth Willard5. The Philosopher-concerning Doctor Parcival6. Nobody Knows-concerning Louise Trunnion7. Godliness , Parts I and II-concerning Jesse Bentley8. Godliness , Surrender (Part III)-concerning Louise Bentley9. Godliness , Terror (Part IV)-concerning David Hardy10. A Man of Ideas-concerning Joe Welling11. Adventure-concerning Alice Hindman12. Respectability-concerning Wash Williams13. The Thinker-concerning Seth Richmond14. Tandy-concerning Tandy Hard15. The Strength of God-concerning The Reverend Curtis Hartman16. The Teacher-concerning Kate Swift17. Loneliness-concerning Enoch Robinson18. An Awakening-concerning Belle Carpenter19. “Queer”-concerning Elmer Cowley20. The Untold Lie-concerning Ray Pearson21. Drink-concerning Tom Foster22. Death-concerning Doctor Reefy and Elizabeth Willard23. Sophistication-concerning Helen White24. Departure-concerning George Willard

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