Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

"Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life" by Sherwood Anderson is a short story cycle published in 1919. Set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio, the work follows George Willard from childhood to young adulthood as he prepares to leave his hometown. Through twenty-two interconnected stories, Anderson explores the inner lives of various townspeople, each struggling with loneliness and isolation in pre-industrial small-town America. Known for its psychological depth and plainspoken prose, the work is considered an early example of Modernist literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
Title Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winesburg,_Ohio
Contents The book of the grotesque -- Hands -- Paper pills -- Mother -- The philosopher -- Nobody knows -- Godliness -- A man of ideas -- Adventure -- Respectability -- The thinker -- Tandy -- The strength of God -- The teacher -- Loneliness -- An awakening -- "Queer" -- The untold lie -- Drink -- Death -- Sophistication -- Departure.
Credits Judith Boss
Reading Level Reading ease score: 79.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject City and town life -- Fiction
Subject Pastoral fiction
Subject Ohio -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 416
Release Date
Last Update Jan 30, 2026
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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