New Releases by Sherwood Anderson

Poor White by Sherwood Anderson: Poor White is a poignant novel by Sherwood Anderson that delves into the lives of the working-class people in a small Midwestern town. The story follows Hugh McVey, a sensitive and ambitious young man from humble beginnings, as he navigates the complexities of social class, love, and personal aspirations. Poor White captures the struggles and dreams of ordinary people and offers a profound exploration of the human condition. Key Points: Social Class and Ambition: Poor White examines the influence of social class on individual aspirations and opportunities. Anderson delves into the challenges faced by Hugh McVey as he seeks to rise above his working-class background and achieve personal success. The novel raises questions about social mobility, the impact of socioeconomic circumstances on one''s dreams, and the limitations imposed by the rigid class structure of the time. Human Desires and Relationships: The novel explores the complexities of human desires and the pursuit of happiness. Anderson delves into the intricacies of love, romance, and the impact of personal relationships on individual growth and fulfillment. Poor White depicts the hopes, disappointments, and the universal longing for connection and purpose that lie at the heart of human existence. Realism and Empathy: Poor White is characterized by its realistic portrayal of everyday life and its empathetic approach to its characters. Anderson''s writing captures the nuances and struggles of ordinary people with compassion and understanding. The novel invites readers to empathize with the joys and sorrows of the characters, prompting reflection on the shared experiences and universal emotions that unite humanity.

Winesburg Ohio is based and inspired by Sherwood Anderson''s life and experiences he got from growing up in Ohio. This small town living portrayal brought this book into the 20th century. This book is extremely influential. So many other prominent writers in our society have been influenced by this true American Classic.

Windy McPherson''s Son is a 1916 novel by American author Sherwood Anderson. It was published by John Lane as part of a three book contract. Windy McPherson''s Son is Sherwood Anderson''s first novel. In September 1907, the Anderson family (at that time just Sherwood, his wife Cornelia and son Robert) moved from Cleveland to Elyria, Ohio, where Anderson became head of the Anderson Manufacturing Company (name changed to American Merchants Company after 1911). As part of the family''s new home, Anderson set aside an attic where he would escape the stresses of business and family life. It was during one winter between 1907 and 1912 that both this room and his office (where Frances Shute, his secretary, would sometimes stay late typing drafts of his first two novels) served as the settings in which Windy McPherson''s Sons was composed. Though it is likely that most of his first novel was composed in Elyria, there is some evidence pointing to possible edits made between those early years and the novel''s publication in 1916. Obvious parallels can be drawn between the plot of Anderson''s own life and that of his first novel. The beginning section of the novel is inspired by his youth, the second ..".combined the ways he had tried to make money in Chicago and Ohio..." and the marriage between Sam and Sue resembles the one between Sherwood and Cornelia. The characters of Mary Underwood and Janet Eberly were likely inspired by Trillena White, a high school teacher that befriended Anderson while he attended the Wittenberg Academy in Springfield, Ohio between 1899 and June 4, 1900, and stayed for a time with the Andersons in Elyria. In addition to the personal connections between Windy McPherson''s Son and the author''s life made by biographers and critics, the influence of other writers is also seen in the book. Anderson himself said of his early writing that he had, "come to novel writing by novel reading." In particular, William Dean Howells (whose writing Anderson disliked), Arnold Bennett, Thomas Hardy, Henry Fuller, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and George Borrow, are all mentioned by Anderson biographer Kim Townsend as authors Anderson would have been reading and discussing at the time he wrote Windy McPherson''s Son. In his 1951 biography of Anderson, Irving Howe disagrees with Townsend and even Anderson''s own statement, arguing that other than the "early social novels of H.G. Wells and the radical-adventure stories of Jack London...Anderson''s early novels were all too much his own, reflecting in their style the natural inclination of a poorly educated writer to strain for the literary and lapse into the colloquial."

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

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: "Windy McPherson''s Son (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The book is the story of Sam McPherson''s rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. The author is strongly coherent in the fact that a man needs to find success that will satisfy his ego regardless of the effect that it can have on his child. Windy goes about his business but the inferiority that accompanies his life gives his son the illusion that life offers little hope. 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 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.

Cycle of interrelated stories that sympathetically view lonely and frustrated individuals in a midwestern town.

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.

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. These stories explore intriguing psychological depths, redolent with personal epiphanies, erotic undercurrents, and sudden eruptions of passion among seemingly repressed, inarticulate Midwesterners.

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.

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.

A collection of short stories by the American writer

A memoir of Midwestern life and culture from the author of Winesburg, OhioPraise for A Story Teller''s Story---"The American Portrait of the Artist."-Charles Baxter"Probably unequaled . . . for the austerity of moral courage and sincerity of conviction. . . . A book which should be read by every intelligent American." -New York Times"In the field of literary autobiography, it stands practically alone in America." -The Nation"The voice of the soliloquist . . . amplifies the drama of A Story Teller''s Story, as does the persistent theme of escape, from an America of fact and factories, marketing and manufacturing, to the borderless Ohios of imagination and creation."-From the introduction by Thomas Lynch

Written as brief editorials, this work creates a picture of the moving life of a town, lifted right out of reality, the changing seasons, the event of the country court, the streets, the comedies and tragedies of a year in a small town''s life. The book moves forward from week to week throughout the year. Much of it includes the writer''s own reporting of the events of the town; and some of it is the imagination of the writer playing over the life about him.

High quality reprint of Horses and Men by Sherwood Anderson.

High quality reprint of Many Marriages by Sherwood Anderson.