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Author
Series
Library of America ; 235
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1912, Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) abruptly left his office and spent three days wandering through the Ohio countryside, a victim of "nervous exhaustion." Over the next few years, abandoning his family and his business, he resolved to become a writer. Novels and poetry followed, but it was with the story collection Winesburg, Ohio that he found his ideal form, remaking the American short story for the modern era. Hart Crane, one...
Author
Publisher
Four Walls Eight Windows
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Until now there has never been a selection of Anderson's best short fiction. Certain Things Last is the first one-volume edition of Anderson's stories. But what makes this book truly remarkable is that five of Anderson's very best stories appear in print here for the first time. They are: "Certain Things Last," "Fred," "The Red Dog," "Mrs. Wife," and "The Masterpiece." The discovery of these new stories makes Certain Things Last an unprecedented publishing...
13) Beyond desire
Author
Publisher
Liveright
Pub. Date
[1961]
Language
English
Description
The perplexities of a young man in his search for a place in the order of things. Set in a Southern mill town.
15) No swank
Author
Publisher
P.P. Appel
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
Author's impressions of well-known persons.
Author
Publisher
The Four Seas Company
Pub. Date
[1922]
Language
English
Description
The essential collection of avant-garde writing by the twentieth-century literary icon and author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
Gertrude Stein was one of the most influential and challenging American writers of the twentieth century. This collection of her writings from 1908 to 1920 demonstrates both the evolution of her craft and the range of styles and genres employed in her unconventional experiments.
Here is Stein the literary Cubist,...
17) Poor white
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
'Poor White' captures the spirit of small-town America during the Machine Age.
Author
Publisher
B.W. Huebsch, Inc
Pub. Date
MCMXXI [1921]
Language
English
Description
"The Triumph of the Egg, Sherwood Anderson's 1921 collection of poems and short stories, focuses on the alienating and disruptive moments of American small-town life. Similar in tone to its more famous sibling-Winesburg, Ohio-Triumph focuses on the driving issues of the early 20th c. Midwest: modernization, increasing industrialization, the growth of big business, and the Great Migration"--Amazon.com.
"'The Triumph of the Egg' is a short story collection...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
Windy McPherson's Son (1916) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson's debut novel is a coming of age story that explores themes of unhappiness and infidelity while illustrating the frustrations of the son of an abusive father. Although he is known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist fiction admired for its plainspoken language and psychological detail, Anderson's Windy...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Published two years after the innovative, influential 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, this collection of short stories solidified the author's reputation as a major American writer. Despite their narrative simplicity (similar in style to the work of Hemingway, who was highly influenced by Anderson's technique), these stories explore intriguing psychological depths, redolent with personal epiphanies, erotic undercurrents, and sudden eruptions of...
