New Releases by Sherwood Anderson

Collection of essays originally published in the Smyth County news and/or the Marion democrat, 1927-1931.

"This little book is a record of thoughts, of feelings in the presence of something amazing in modern life - the machine."--p. 133.

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.

The book is made up of episodes in the childhood of Edgar Moorehead.

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, Ohio), which is loosely based on Anderson''s childhood memories of Clyde, Ohio. What inspired Sherwood Anderson writing? He started publishing stories that are short in small magazines, such as the Little Review and the Masses. Anderson was influenced by modernist writers, like his friend Gertrude Stein; in Winesburg, his laconic, Ohio, searching prose subtly evokes the alienation of small town life. What was Sherwood Anderson''s influence on American literature? The simplicity of the prose style of his and the choice of his of subject matter influenced many writers who followed him, most notably Faulkner and Hemingway, but these writers tended to belittle the contribution of his to literature as well as to the own work of theirs. Anderson died of peritonitis en route to South America on a goodwill trip.

High quality reprint of Mid-American Chants by Sherwood Anderson.