Winesburg, Ohio Summary
Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio Summary

Winesburg, Ohio was Sherwood Anderson's breakthrough work, the one that first gained widespread attention for him as an artist, although it was years before he would produce a best seller. He was forty-two when it was published, with two novels published previously that had received little interest from the reading public.

According to the story that Anderson would later relate in his Memoirs, the book started one night when he was living by...

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