Winesburg, Ohio (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sherwood Anderson
- First Published: 1919
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Nineteenth century, Midwest, Ohio, Obsession, Ministry or ministers, Small-town life, Gossip, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Reporting or reporters
- Locales: Winesburg, OH
Winesburg, Ohio offers detailed analyses of more than twenty of the residents of a fictional town in the region of Dayton, Ohio, and it introduces more than a hundred of the inhabitants of this community of some eighteen hundred people—the greatest number through incidental anecdotes and pointed, penetrating vignettes. The result is something akin to a novel, though there is no unifying story line and no central character or protagonist—George Willard, the young newspaperman, being merely the one through whose eyes the townsfolk are viewed.
The prefatory chapter,...
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