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Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood ANDERSON (1876 - 1941)

Book of the Grotesque, The

Winesburg, Ohio

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. 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. 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 citizens of Winesburg are described obliquely as "grotesques," but as the introductory chapter makes clear, "The grotesques were not all horrible. Some were amusing, some almost beautiful . . ." (Description by Stewart Wills)

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Adventure , Awakening, An , Death , Departure , Drink , Godliness , Godliness, Part II, also concerning Jesse Bentley , Godliness, Part III Surrender, concerning Louise Bentley , Godliness, Part IV Terror, concerning David Hardy , Hands , Loneliness , Man of Ideas, A , Mother , Nobody knows , Paper pills , Philosopher, The , Queer , Respectability , Sophistication , Strength of God, The , Tandy , Teacher, The , Thinker, The , Untold Lie, The