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Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio: With Variant Readings and Annotations
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Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio: With Variant Readings and Annotations Hardcover - 1997

by Sherwood Anderson; Ray Lewis White (Editor)


From the publisher

In 1919 a middle-aged Chicago advertising writer from Ohio, a failure as a businessman, husband, and father, published a small yellow book of short stories intended to "reform" American literature. Against all expectations, Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life achieved what its author intended: after 1919 and after Winesburg, Ohio, American literature would be written and read freshly and differently.

Winesburg, Ohio has never been out of print, but never has Anderson's book been published in the form and with the editorial care that the work has needed and deserved. The present text, authorized by the Sherwood Anderson Literary Estate Trust, is an expert text. The editor has relied on years of experience in editing Sherwood Anderson and has consulted all Anderson manuscripts, typescripts, letters, and diaries and all editions of the book to present the masterpiece in its intended state.

New to this expert edition of Winesburg, Ohio are historical and cultural annotations, documentation of changes in the various editions, identification of the Ohio originals for Anderson's characters, and maps bearing the streets and buildings of the real town of Clyde, Ohio, which is the basis of Anderson's fictional account.

Included as well are unique photographs of Anderson and Clyde, Ohio, illustrations that deepen knowledge and feeling for the author's actual hometown and time, revealing Winesburg, Ohio to be an intensely local narrative--very much an "Ohio" book--and yet a book that has found and held worldwide attention.

From the rear cover

In 1919 a middle-aged Chicago advertising writer from Ohio, a failure as a businessman, husband, and father, published a slim yellow book of short stories intended to "reform" American literature. Sherwood Anderson strove to portray the buried inner lives of "pathetic grotesques" - people wounded by life in body or spirit - and to tell their stories in short revelations rather than in sweeping novels. Against all expectations, Winesburg Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life accomplished what its author intended. Afterwards, American literature would be written and read differently. Writers of short fiction learned from Anderson to achieve both character-centered form and daring Modernist subject matter. Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, authorized by the Sherwood Anderson Literary Estate Trust, is an expert text, in that Ray Lewis White has consulted all Anderson manuscripts, typescripts, letters, diaries, and all editions of the book to present the masterpiece as it was intended. White's edition also is informed by his 35 years of experience in editing, studying, and appreciating Sherwood Anderson and his fiction. New to this edition of Winesburg, Ohio are historical and cultural annotations, documentation of changes of various editions, identification of the Ohio originals of Anderson's characters; and maps of the real town of Clyde, in North Central Ohio, which was the basis of Anderson's fictional account. Included as well are unique photographs of Anderson and Clyde that deepen knowledge and feeling for the author's time and his work.

Details

  • Title Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio: With Variant Readings and Annotations
  • Author Sherwood Anderson; Ray Lewis White (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 285
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ohio University Press, Athens
  • Date 1997-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780821411803 / 0821411802
  • Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.34 x 7.34 x 1 in (26.26 x 18.64 x 2.54 cm)
  • Reading level 1050
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
    • Geographic Orientation: Ohio
  • Library of Congress subjects City and town life, City and town life - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97000711
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 01/01/1998, Page 150

About the author

Ray Lewis White was Distinguished Professor of English at Illinois State University. In addition to several books about Sherwood Anderson, he published extensively on the American short story and on an array of modern and contemporary writers.

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