num_pages: 544
description: George Willard is a young reporter on the  Winesburg Eagle  to whom, one by one, the inhabitants of Winesburg, Ohio, confide their hopes, their dreams, and their fears. This town of friendly but solitary people comes to life as Anderson's special talent exposes the emotional undercurrents that bind its people together. In this timeless cycle of short stories, he lays bare the life of a small town in the American Midwest.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
language: English
title: Winesburg, Ohio: Text and Criticism
titlecomplete: Winesburg, Ohio: Text and Criticism (Critical Library, Viking)
characters: Tandy Hard, Ray Pearson, Elmer Cowley, David Hardy, Enoch Robinson, Jesse Bentley, Kate Swift, The Reverend Curtis Hartman, Joe Welling, Seth Richmond, Doctor Parcival, Louise Trunnion, Belle Carpenter, Wash Williams, George Willard, Louise Bentley, Elizabeth Willard, Tom Foster, Helen White, Alice Hindman
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, American, Americana, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction
ratings_count: 34008
places: Ohio
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Penguin Books