Winesburg, Ohio Prebound - 2005
by Sherwood Anderson; Afterword by Dean R. Koontz; Introduction by Irving Howe
Inspired by Anderson's Midwestern boyhood and his observations in early 20th-century Chicago, the loosely connected stories in "Winesburg, Ohio" gave birth to the American story cycle, for which Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and later writers were forever indebted. Reissue.
About this book
The book is a short story cycle, a collection of 22 stories that all take place in the fictional Winesburg, Ohio. The gloomy tales paint a morose portrait of small town life in the US before the industrial boom.
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First Edition Identification
A number of the stories that appear in the book were previously published in several literary magazines and journals, including The Masses, Little Review, and Seven Arts. They were finally published in book form by B.W. Huebsch in 1919.
The First State of the first edition is identifiable by a few points: Bound in yellow cloth with a map printed on the end paper, the first state had a typo "lay" on page 86, line 5 and the word "the" was printed with broken type face on pager 251, line 3.
Details
- Title Winesburg, Ohio
- Author Sherwood Anderson; Afterword by Dean R. Koontz; Introduction by Irving Howe
- Binding Prebound
- Pages 265
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Perfection Learning
- Date 2005-11
- Features Bibliography, Maps
- ISBN 9780756970444 / 075697044X
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.1 in (17.53 x 10.67 x 2.79 cm)
- Reading level 1050
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Geographic Orientation: Ohio
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, City and town life
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC