num_pages: 160
description: In this moving collection of interrelated stories, Ohio-born Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) illuminates the loneliness and frustration — spiritual, emotional and artistic — of life in a small American town. Winesburg, Ohio subtly portrays as well a young writer's coming of age, searching for love, yearning for a less stifling world.Through the eyes of young George Willard, the inner lives of many of Winesburg's inhabitants open to us. Before George leaves the community, we have learned much about his mother Elizabeth, his friend Helen White, his teacher Kate Swift and other Winesburg residents — the lonely, sensitive Dr. Reefy, the tormented Rev. Charles Hartman and the enigmatic Wing Biddlebaum among them.Through Anderson's art, their stories are woven into a powerful portrayal of community life, and, ironically, of the isolation its close atmosphere can engender. A great success on its first publication in 1919, Winesburg, Ohio profoundly influenced a generation of fiction writers with its deeply moving poetic realism. It endures as a classic portrait of American life.
language: English
title: Winesburg, Ohio
titlecomplete: Winesburg, Ohio (Dover Thrift Editions)
characters: Doctor Parcival, David Hardy, Seth Richmond, Belle Carpenter, Louise Trunnion, Kate Swift, Enoch Robinson, Tom Foster, The Reverend Curtis Hartman, Jesse Bentley, Elizabeth Willard, Tandy Hard, Wash Williams, Joe Welling, Alice Hindman, Louise Bentley, George Willard, Helen White, Elmer Cowley, Ray Pearson
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, The United States Of America, American, Literary Fiction, Americana, Literature, Short Stories, Novels
ratings_count: 34010
places: Ohio
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Dover Publications