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Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson5/8/2023 ![]() This town of friendly but solitary people comes to life as Andersons special talent exposes the emotional undercurrents that bind its people together. Lying in bed, the old writers thoughts of dying made him more alive. 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. The carpenter wept telling the old writer about his brothers death. ![]() Some were amusing, some almost beautiful. by Sherwood Anderson Buy Study Guide Winesburg, Ohio Summary 'Prologue: 'The Book of the Grotesque' An old writer hired a carpenter to raise his bed level with the windows. The citizens of Winesburg are described obliquely as "grotesques," but as the introductory chapter makes clear, "The grotesques were not all horrible. Thus Winesburg tells the story of the townspeople's loneliness and alienation in parallel with the tale of George's own coming of age. The inarticulate and lonely citizens of Winesburg, each with his or her own secret tale to tell, frequently relate those tales to, or through their interactions with, the character of George Willard, a young Winesburg citizen on the cusp of manhood with dreams of becoming a writer. ![]() Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a series of loosely related character studies of the inhabitants of a fictional Midwestern town that together form a novel of unusual unity and vision. ![]() Download cover art Download CD case insert Winesburg, Ohio ![]()
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