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Winesburg, Ohio
Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Feb 2, 2027
- Page Count
- 256 pages
- Publisher
- Union Square & Co.
- ISBN-13
- 9781454971146
Price
$4.99Price
$6.99 CADFormat
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Set in and named after the fictionalized town of Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson's 1919 collection of interconnected short stories served as a foundational work of American Modernist literature. Based loosely on the author's childhood in Ohio, the work is structured around the life and coming-of-age of its protagonist, George Willard, following him from childhood to independence, when he eventually chooses to abandon the town as a young man. The collection depicts the fraught reality of a small Midwestern town, and at its time, it was highly controversial for its daring portrayal of sexual freedom and rejection of conventional restraints. Anderson's work had a profound impact on American literature, influencing renowned writers such as Hemingway and Faulkner. The poet Hart Crane praised how "Winesburg, Ohio, when it first appeared, kept me up a whole night in a steady crescendo of emotion."
