num_pages: 285
description: In 1919 a middle-aged Chicago advertising writer from Ohio, a failure as a businessman, husband, and father, published a small yellow book of short stories intended to “reform” American literature. Against all expectations, Winesburg, A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life achieved what its author after 1919 and after Winesburg, Ohio , American literature would be written and read freshly and differently. Winesburg, Ohio has never been out of print, but never has Anderson’s book been published in the form and with the editorial care that the work has needed and deserved. The present text, authorized by the Sherwood Anderson Literary Estate Trust, is an expert text. The editor has relied on years of experience in editing Sherwood Anderson and has consulted all Anderson manuscripts, typescripts, letters, and diaries and all editions of the book to present the masterpiece in its intended state. New to this expert edition of Winesburg, Ohio are historical and cultural annotations, documentation of changes in the various editions, identification of the Ohio originals for Anderson’s characters, and maps bearing the streets and buildings of the real town of Clyde, Ohio, which is the basis of Anderson’s fictional account. Included as well are unique photographs of Anderson and Clyde, Ohio, illustrations that deepen knowledge and feeling for the author’s actual hometown and time, revealing Winesburg, Ohio to be an intensely local narrative—very much an “Ohio” book—and yet a book that has found and held worldwide attention.
language: English
title: Winesburg, Ohio
titlecomplete: Winesburg, Ohio
characters: George Willard, Ray Pearson, Alice Hindman, Wash Williams, Helen White, Jesse Bentley, Seth Richmond, David Hardy, Enoch Robinson, Belle Carpenter, Louise Bentley, Louise Trunnion, Kate Swift, Elmer Cowley, The Reverend Curtis Hartman, Tom Foster, Joe Welling, Tandy Hard, Elizabeth Willard, Doctor Parcival
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Americana, Short Stories, Fiction, The United States Of America
ratings_count: 34011
places: Ohio
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Ohio University Press