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Welcome to the insightful world of "The Modern Writer" by Sherwood Anderson, where the art and craft of writing come alive through profound reflections and practical wisdom. Join Sherwood Anderson, a master storyteller and literary critic, as he explores the complexities and nuances of the modern writer''s journey. Drawing from his own experiences and observations, Anderson offers invaluable insights into the creative process, the challenges of literary craftsmanship, and the evolving role of the writer in society. Anderson''s engaging prose and keen observations illuminate the path of the modern writer, addressing themes of inspiration, technique, and the pursuit of authenticity in storytelling. Through thoughtful analysis and personal anecdotes, he invites readers to reconsider their perceptions of literature and creativity. With its blend of literary criticism, memoir, and practical advice, "The Modern Writer" provides a compelling narrative that will resonate with aspiring writers, literature enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the art of storytelling. Anderson''s timeless wisdom and eloquent prose make this book a valuable resource for understanding the writer''s craft. Since its publication, "The Modern Writer" has been praised for its insightful commentary and Anderson''s ability to capture the essence of literary life. His reflections on the writing process and the role of the writer continue to inspire and inform readers, making this book a must-read for anyone passionate about literature and creativity. As you delve into Anderson''s exploration of the modern writer, you''ll find yourself captivated by his profound insights and thoughtful reflections. His deep understanding of the creative process and his commitment to authenticity make this book an essential addition to your literary collection. Don''t miss your chance to explore the world of "The Modern Writer" by Sherwood Anderson. Let Anderson''s wisdom and eloquence guide you through the intricacies of the writing life and inspire your own creative journey. Grab your copy now and discover why Anderson''s insights continue to resonate with writers and readers alike.

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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 McPherson’s Son is a powerful work of fiction that helped establish him as a leading realist writer of his generation. “At the beginning of the long twilight of a summer evening, Sam McPherson, a tall big-boned boy of thirteen, with brown hair, black eyes, and an amusing little habit of tilting his chin in the air as he walked, came upon the platform of the little corn-shipping town of Caxton in Iowa.” With a cigar in his hand and a bundle of newspapers under his arm, the young Sam McPherson appears both overly proud and ambitious for his age. Those that know him, however, understand that he has no choice. Left to fend for himself by an alcoholic father, Sam dreams of making a name for himself and escaping the small town of his birth. When an ill-fated affair with an older teacher leaves him disgraced, McPherson abandons his father for Chicago, where he finds work as a purchaser of farming equipment. Soon, he falls in love with his boss’ daughter, the beautiful Sue Rainey. Windy McPherson’s Son is a story of the American Dream, for all of its difficult truths and convenient fictions. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood Anderson’s Windy McPherson’s Son is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson''s most famous work, "Winesburg, Ohio" is a cycle of short stories set in the fictional town of Winesburg, loosely based on the author''s own home town of Clyde, Ohio. A picture of small town America during the first part of the 20th century, the series of short stories revolves around the life George Willard, from youth, through his yearning for independence, to his eventually departure from the town. Each story tells the tale of a distinct member of the town as related to George, a young reporter for the "Winesburg Eagle." Through this device the author establishes a frame in which George acts as a recorder of the other town members'' narratives and which also acts as a foil for his own coming-of-age story. Central to all the stories are the themes of loneliness and isolation which permeate the existence of small-town life. Belonging to both the modernist and realist literary traditions, "Winesburg, Ohio" is a work which in a way defies classification, being at once both a novel and a series of short stories. Generally well received upon its first publication in 1919, the work over time has come to be regarded as a classic of modern American literature. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes an introduction by Ernest Boyd. Sherwood Anderson''s most famous work, "Winesburg, Ohio" is a cycle of short stories set in the fictional town of Winesburg, loosely based on the author''s own home town of Clyde, Ohio. A picture of small town America during the first part of the 20th century, the series of short stories revolves around the life George Willard, from youth, through his yearning for independence, to his eventually departure from the town. Each story tells the tale of a distinct member of the town as related to George, a young reporter for the "Winesburg Eagle." Through this device the author establishes a frame in which George acts as a recorder of the other town members'' narratives and which also acts as a foil for his own coming-of-age story. Central to all the stories are the themes of loneliness and isolation which permeate the existence of small-town life. Belonging to both the modernist and realist literary traditions, "Winesburg, Ohio" is a work which in a way defies classification, being at once both a novel and a series of short stories. Generally well received upon its first publication in 1919, the work over time has come to be regarded as a classic of modern American literature. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes an introduction by Ernest Boyd.

Quite a fuss was made about the matter. The carpenter, who had been a soldier in the Civil War, came into the writer''s room and sat down to talk of building a platform for the purpose of raising the bed. The writer had cigars lying about and the carpenter smoked.

Winesburg, Ohio is a classic short story cycle that was written by Sherwood Anderson and published in 1919. The action tells the coming of age story of George Willard from the time he was a child until the time he ultimately abandons Winesburg as a young man. The story is based loosely off of Anderson''s life growing up in Clyde, Ohio.This is a collection of 15 short stories that were written by Sherwood Anderson and published in 1921. This was Anderson''s first short story collection after Winesburg, Ohio.Sherwood Anderson was a prominent American author. Anderson was self-educated and would later become a successful business owner in Cleveland, Ohio. After suffering a nervous breakdown he left the business world behind and became an esteemed writer. Anderson''s best works include novels such as Poor White, and Marching Men, and the short story collection Winesburg, Ohio.

Winesburg, Ohio (full title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The work is structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man. It is set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio (not to be confused with the actual Winesburg), which is based loosely on the author''s childhood memories of Clyde, Ohio. Mostly written from late 1915 to early 1916, with a few stories completed closer to publication, they were ..".conceived as complementary parts of a whole, centered in the background of a single community."[1] The book consists of twenty-two stories, with the first story, "The Book of the Grotesque," serving as an introduction. Each of the stories shares a specific character''s past and present struggle to overcome the loneliness and isolation that seems to permeate the town. Stylistically, because of its emphasis on the psychological insights of characters over plot, and plain-spoken prose, Winesburg, Ohio is known as one of the earliest works of Modernist literature

Scritto nel 1925, il romanzo Dark Laughter è una piccola Odissea moderna. Le pianure del Middle West, i grandi fiumi, le città dure, fanno da sfondo alle vicende del protagonista, John Stockton, un uomo in fuga dalle convenzioni e dalle finzioni sociali e alla ricerca di un nuovo sé. In un mondo sospeso tra reale e possibile, tra presente e infanzia, tra biografia e storia, si agita una costellazione di personaggi irrisolti, di figure simboliche. La tensione espressiva del linguaggio, il bisogno di una maggiore aderenza alla vita, l’urgenza di amare, di risolvere il mito dell’infanzia e di dare, infine, un senso al proprio esistere, sono alcuni dei temi che percorrono un romanzo fatto di grande intensità, scritto con un linguaggio moderno, asciutto ed essenziale.

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Sam stepped to the baggage-room door, handed him the cigar, and began giving directions, pointing into the baggage-room, intent and business-like in the face of the Irishman''s laughter. Then, turning, he walked across the station platform to the main street of the town, his eyes bent on the ends of his fingers on which he was making computations with his thumb. Jerry looked after him, grinning so that his red gums made a splash of colour on his bearded face. A gleam of paternal pride lit his eyes and he shook his head and muttered admiringly. Then, lighting the cigar, he went down the platform to where a wrapped bundle of newspapers lay against the building, under the window of the telegraph office, and taking it in his arm disappeared, still grinning, into the baggage-room.

Sherwood Anderson was born on September 13, 1876 in Camden, Ohio. He was pretty much self-educated and his early career was that of a successful copywriter and business owner in both Cleveland and Elyria in Ohio. In November 28th, 1912 he suffered a nervous breakdown. It led to him abandoning both his business and his family to become a writer. Sherwood''s first novel, Windy McPherson''s Son was published in 1916 as part of a three-book deal. This book, along with his second novel, Marching Men (published in 1917) prepared him for the success and fame he was to find fame with Winesburg, Ohio a collection of interrelated short stories, Winesburg, Ohio (published in 1919). In his memoir, he wrote that "Hands," was the first "real" story he ever wrote. Despite writing further short story collections, novels, plays, essays and poetry as well as a memoir only his novel Dark Laughter, written in 1925, could claim to be a commercial best seller. His influence on the next generation of writers was immense. He not only help to obtain publication for William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway but was an inspiration to writers of the calibre of John Steinbeck and Thomas Wolfe. Sherwood Anderson died on March 8th 1941 at the age of 64. He was taken ill during a cruise to South America and disembarked with his wife for the hospital in Colon, Panama, where he died. An autopsy revealed he had swallowed a toothpick, which had damaged his internal organs and promoted infection. Sherwood''s body was returned to the United States, where he was buried at Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. His epitaph reads, "Life, Not Death, is the Great Adventure." Here we publish the classic ''Winesburg, Ohio.''

This carefully crafted ebook: "Winesburg, Ohio (A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This ebook is a series of loosely linked short stories set in the fictional town of Winesburg, mostly written from late 1915 to early 1916. The stories are held together by George Willard, a resident to whom the community confide their personal stories and struggles. The townspeople are withdrawn and emotionally repressed and attempt in telling their stories to gain some sense of meaning and dignity in an otherwise desperate life. The work has received high critical acclaim and is considered one of the great American works of the 20th century. Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Anderson published several short story collections, novels, memoirs, books of essays, and a book of poetry. He may be most influential for his effect on the next generation of young writers, as he inspired William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Thomas Wolfe.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Poor White (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Sherwood Anderson''s Poor White captures the spirit of small-town America during the Machine Age. A lonely and passionate inventor of farm machinery, Hugh McVey, who rises from poverty on the bank of the Mississippi River, struggles to gain love and intimacy in a community where "life had surrendered to the machine." Through his story Anderson aims his criticism at the rise of technology and industry at the turn of the century. Simultaneously, he renders a tale of eloquent naturalism and disturbing beauty. Poor White was praised by such writers as H. L. Mencken and Hart Crane when it was first published in 1920. It remains a curiously contemporary novel, and a marvelous testament to Sherwood Anderson''s "sombre metaphysical preoccupation and his smouldering sensuousness". Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Anderson published several short story collections, novels, memoirs, books of essays, and a book of poetry. He may be most influential for his effect on the next generation of young writers, as he inspired William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Thomas Wolfe.

This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ''A New Testament'' is a collection of poetry by this influential writer. In 1908, Anderson began writing short stories and novels. He moved to Chicago, where he found work in an advertising agency and became friends with other writers in Chicago, including Floyd Dell, Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht and Carl Sandburg. Starting in 1914, the now-politicised Anderson began having his work published in ''The Masses'', a socialist journal. Anderson''s first novel, ''Windy McPherson''s Son'', was published in 1916. This was followed by the novel ''Marching Men'' (1917) and a collection of prose poems, ''Mid-American Chants'' (1918). A year later, ''Winesburg, Ohio'' (1919), Anderson''s best-remembered and best-known work, was published.

This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1923 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ''Horses and Men'' is a collection of short stories that include ''A Chicago Hamlet'', ''I''m a Fool'', ''The Man Who Became a Woman'', and many more. In 1908, Anderson began writing short stories and novels. He moved to Chicago, where he found work in an advertising agency and became friends with other writers in Chicago, including Floyd Dell, Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht and Carl Sandburg. Starting in 1914, the now-politicised Anderson began having his work published in ''The Masses'', a socialist journal. Anderson''s first novel, ''Windy McPherson''s Son'', was published in 1916. This was followed by the novel ''Marching Men'' (1917) and a collection of prose poems, ''Mid-American Chants'' (1918). A year later, ''Winesburg, Ohio'' (1919), Anderson''s best-remembered and best-known work, was published.

This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1932 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ''Beyond Desire'' is a fictional biography of the life of the German composer Felix Mendelssohn. In 1908, Anderson began writing short stories and novels. Anderson lived in Chicago, where he found work in an advertising agency and became friends with other writers, including Floyd Dell, Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht and Carl Sandburg. Starting in 1914, the now-politicised Anderson began having his work published in ''The Masses'', a socialist journal. Anderson''s first novel, ''Windy McPherson''s Son'', was published in 1916. This was followed by the novel ''Marching Men'' (1917) and a collection of prose poems, ''Mid-American Chants'' (1918). A year later, ''Winesburg, Ohio'' (1919), Anderson''s best-remembered and best-known work, was published.

A reappraisal of Anderson within the tradition of American progressive poetry Famous for his modernist fiction, Ohio native Sherwood Anderson has long been recognized almost exclusively as a prose writer despite his prolific published output of poetry between 1915 and 1939. In American Spring Song, editor Stuart Downs reintroduces readers to a body of work rarely seen and never before studied. With an experimental sensibility, Anderson''s poetry ranges from Whitmanesque to imagist to objectivist to surrealist, making its perspectives on the human spirit and consciousness, class, and gender especially interesting and relevant to contemporary readers. Downs''s comprehensive and contextual introduction reflects on Sherwood Anderson as a major American literary figure as well as on his deep commitment to his poetry. In his presentation and selection of poems, Downs illuminates a connection between Anderson''s poetry and its historical, cultural, personal, and literary influences. American Spring Song underscores Anderson''s place in American literature--prose and poetry. This important collection will be welcomed by modernist scholars, Anderson specialists, and poets alike.

Embracing a naturalistic interpretation of American life, the stories are characterized by a casual development, complexity of motivation, and an interest in psychological process.

In 1927, tired of the literary life of New York City, New Orleans, and Chicago, a famous but aging American writer named Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) -- author of Winesburg, Ohio(1919) and other short stories in which he virtually invented the modern American short-story -- moved to rural Southwest Virginia to write for and edit two small-town weekly newspaper that he owned, the Marion Democrat. and the Smyth County News. Living again among the small-town figures with whom he was usually most content, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolf, and indeed an entire generation of the greatest American writers -- worked for several years at making his newspaper nationally famous while struggling to come to terms with a life-threatening psychological depression and a failing third marriage. Both of Anderson''s midlife problems were complicated when he met Eleanor Copenhaver, lovely young daughter in one of the prominent first families of Marion and a career social worker for the YWCA. Trying to keep their ardent affair secret in the small town, Anderson avidly courted the socially prominent and much younger Miss Copenhaver while at the same time trying to free himself from his embittered third wife and overcome the disadvantages of his age and his lover''s family''s distrust of him.Having by the end of 1931 continued for three years his surreptitious and consuming affair with Miss Copenhaver, Anderson determined on the first day of 1932 that the new year should be the year of decisions for him to gain his love in marriage or perhaps to end his life, and he began the new year with a creative venture unique in literature. Starting on January1, Anderson secretly wrote and hid away for Eleanor Copenhaver to find after his eventual death one letter each day, letters that she should someday discover, whether they had ever become married or not, and thereby relive in her memory their days of intense lovemaking a mutual despair about their then-unlikely marriage.Found by Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson only at Sherwood Anderson''s death in 1941 and then preserved intact by this grieving widow who had married Anderson in 1933, the carefully hidden letters of 1932 recording their intense and seemingly doomed love affair have remained secret until now. Chosen by Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson before her death in 1985 to publish her husband''s secret love letters, Anderson scholar Ray Lewis White has prepared a fascinating edition of these unique letters for the enjoyment of students and scholars of literature as well as for all other readers who savor compelling and inspiring stories of loss and love.

Contains thirty short stories drawn from three collections published by American author Sherwood Anderson in the later years of his career, between 1921 and 1933.

In 1919 a middle-aged Chicago ad man facing professional and personal crises published a modest book of stories intended to "reform" American literature. Against all expectations, it achieved what its author, Sherwood Anderson, intended: after Winesburg, Ohio, American literature would be written and read freshly and differently.

Southern Odyssey contains the best of Sherwood Anderson''s writings about the region where he spent the last sixteen years of his life. In more than forty selections of journalism and fiction, Anderson explores the people and problems of the South. The pieces collected here present Anderson''s perceptive vision of the South, combining his love for the region with the fresh observations of an outsider. His work reflects a range of issues that engaged all southerners at a crucial time in their history--the Great Depression, the influence of the New Deal, the painful transition from agriculture to mechanization, the struggle of labor to unionize, and the elemental divisions of race--always with an eye toward the human side of things. Anderson''s impressions and convictions concerning his southern experience encompassed more than its troubles, however. He also wrote of the splendor of a Shenandoah spring and the strength of character of the native people. Southern Odyssey is more than a personal record--it is a gallery of southern portraits, drawn in the style that distinguishes Anderson''s prose at its best.

A collection of short stories by the American writer

The distinguished American author''s letters to a close friend depict his experiences and examine literature and society.

"It was a time of Prohibition and poverty in the hills. Moonshine was about the only cash crop." -- (p.4) of cover.

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A collection of the most notable writings of Sherwood Anderson, with a commentary and a chronology.