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  Winesburg, Ohio (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winesburg, Ohio is a 1919 novel by the American author Sherwood Anderson.
The stories are centered on the protagonist George Willard and the fictional inhabitants of the town of Winesburg, Ohio.
Anderson grew up in Clyde, Ohio, and this town served as the model for his fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winesburg,_Ohio_(novel)   (501 words)

  
 Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson: INTRODUCTION by Irving Howe
Sherwood Anderson was born in Ohio in 1876.
No sooner did Winesburg, Ohio make its appear- ance than a number of critical labels were fixed on it: the revolt against the village, the espousal of sexual freedom, the deepening of American realism.
Winesburg, Ohio registers the losses inescap- able to life, and it does so with a deep fraternal sadness, a sympathy casting a mild glow over the entire book.
www.classicauthors.net /Anderson/winesburg/winesburg1.html   (2958 words)

  
 the worth of words in { winesburg, ohio }
Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio encapsulates both the changes that have swept up language from 1919 till the present, and the endurance of certain themes.
By the time Winesburg was published, Sir Richard Burton's 1883 translations of various Indian erotic texts, the Kama Sutra and the Thousand and One Nights among them, were both readily available and fairly known in the US.
Winesburg seems less threatening now mostly because of its language, its timidity and overuse of euphemisms (particularly the word "adventure," used throughout to designate a sexual escapade, and Anderson's proclivity to drawing the blinds on his readers when things get too hot), not because it is any less a work of literature.
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 2. Hands. Anderson, Sherwood. 1919. Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg was proud of the hands of Wing Biddlebaum in the same spirit in which it was proud of Banker White’s new stone house and Wesley Moyer’s bay stallion, Tony Tip, that had won the two-fifteen trot at the fall races in Cleveland.
As he ran away into the darkness they repented of their weakness and ran after him, swearing and throwing sticks and great balls of soft mud at the figure that screamed and ran faster and faster into the darkness.
He had an aunt in Winesburg, a fl-toothed old woman who raised chickens, and with her he lived until she died.
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 6/06: Clyde and Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg is a little town in the east central part of the state.
Winesburg, Ohio, in Anderson’s stories, is a place of little human community, hard drinking and violence burning under the surface.
Winesburg, Ohio, the book, concludes with the main character, George Willard, leaving his home community and setting off on his own.
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 Welcome to the website of Winesburg, Ohio:
Sherwood Anderson was born in 1876 in Camden, Ohio.
Winesburg, Ohio garnered Anderson a literary fame that his later works (among them Many Marriages in 1923 and Dark Laughter in 1925) failed to do.
Winesburg, Ohio begins with a sort of prologue, in which an old writer imagines all the people he has known as "grotesques," warped in their pursuits of various truths.
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 byGosh.com - Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
You might even say, with only slight overstatement, that what Anderson is doing in Winesburg, Ohio could be described as "antirealistic," fictions notable less for precise locale and social detail than for a highly personal, even strange vision of American life.
In all of them there was once something sweet, "like the twisted little apples that grow in the orchards in Winesburg." Now, broken and adrift, they clutch at some rigid notion or idea, a "truth" which turns out to bear the stamp of monomania, leaving them helplessly sputtering, desperate to speak out but unable to.
Winesburg, Ohio registers the losses inescapable to life, and it does so with a deep fraternal sadness, a sympathy casting a mild glow over the entire book.
www.bygosh.com /wb/winesburg01.htm   (2817 words)

  
 Winesburg, Ohio... Clyde's View
Gospel Hill - by reading the text of Winesburg, Ohio this would be the hill on the west side of Community Park.
Winesburg High School - in 1919, the year Winesburg, Ohio was published, the school would have stood in the same block whereVine Street School now stands.
Winesburg Methodist Church - the present day Methodist Church stands at the intersections of Maple Street and Race Street on the west end of town.
www.clydeohio.net /Archive/winesburg/clydeview1.htm   (616 words)

  
 Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of stories set in a fictitious town in the 1890's and is considered Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece.
Anderson wrote simply, brilliantly crafting a work that dared to examine the darker impulses of human nature at a time when acceptable popular fiction was suffocating in its own gentility and morality.
Considered by many at the time of publication (1919) to be a scandalous work, Winesburg, Ohio has nonetheless survived throughout the decades as the forerunner of modern fiction, and has been tranlated into 19 languages.
www.audiobookshelf.com /winesburg.html   (165 words)

  
 Winesburg, Ohio Summary & Essays - Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg, Ohio was Sherwood Anderson's breakthrough work, the one that first gained widespread attention for him as an artist, although it was years before he would produce a best seller.
The Thematic and Formal Significance of Storytelling in Winesburg, Ohio
A rural farm setting, similar to the environs of Winesburg, Ohio.
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 Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - "Winesburg, Ohio" in Philadelphia - 10/17/05
All of the stories in Winesburg, Ohio are like that - by adding tiny but revealing details, the authors and the actors make you feel as if you know the whole story of a person's life, even though a tale like Alice's is telescoped into only about five minutes.
Winesburg, Ohio's score has the warm feel of folk music, with fiddle, mandolin and banjo accompanying the singers.
Winesburg, Ohio does falter in a few minor areas - most notably in Hissong's bland performance as George, who comes across as a cipher compared to the fully fleshed-out people around him.
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 Sherwood Anderson
Anderson made his name as a leading naturalistic writer with his masterwork, WINESBURG, OHIO (1919), a picture of life in a typical small Midwestern town, as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants.
His third novel, Winesburg, Ohio, was "half individual tales, half long novel form", as the author himself described it.
The individual tales of Winesburg, Ohio, and Anderson's other collections of short stories, THE TRIUMPHS OF THE EGG (1921), HORSES AND MEN (1932), and DEATH IN THE WOODS (1933), directed the American short story away from the neatly plotted tales of O.
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 WINESBURG, OHIO
In 1915-16 Anderson had begun to write and in 1919 he published the stories that comprise Winesburg, Ohio, stories that form, in sum, a sort of loosely- strung episodic novel.
Only rarely is the object of Anderson's stories social verisimilitude, or the "phoographing" of familiar appearances, in the sense, say, that one might use to describe a novel by Theodore Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis.
Most critics and readers grew impatient with the work he did after, say, 1927 or 1928; they felt he was constantly repeating his gestures of emotional "groping"-- what he had called in Winesburg, Ohio the "indefinable hunger" that prods and torments people.
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 Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.
It follows the pattern of a theme or statement of a character being introduced, which is then followed by a retelling of incidents that are simply variations of the theme.
What makes Winesburg Ohio a masterpiece is Anderson's rejection of the plot as the main focal point.
Ultimately, the tales within Winesburg, Ohio demonstrate an illumination of people's lives with a touch of human sympathy and an element of myth.
www.americansc.org.uk /Reviews/Winesburg.htm   (586 words)

  
 Winesburg, Ohio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winesburg is a town in Holmes County, Ohio, United States.
It is not the setting of the novel Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, a collection of inter-related fictional short stories about members of the town set in the early 20th century.
This Ohio state location article is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winesburg,_Ohio   (191 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Winesburg, Ohio: Short Summary
Her son, David Hardy, is sent to live with his grandfather on the old man's farm, and Jesse takes the boy out into the forest in search of a message from God.
At the end of a long evening with Helen White, the daughter of the Winesburg banker, he tells her that he plans to leave town for good.
He tries to tell Belle Carpenter, the girl he has been seeing, about it, but another one of her suitors beats him up, and the magic of the evening slips away.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/winesburgohio/summary.html   (818 words)

  
 Winesburg, Ohio (A Review)
The Ohio communities that once hated this book for airing their dirty laundry now take great pride in it.
Winesburg, Ohio details small-town, Midwestern American life at the turn of the century (late 1800s to early 1900s).
For example, Wash Williams (a "respected" telegraph operator) is described as "ugly," a "beast," and a woman-hater in the story "Respectability." Through his dialogue with George Williard, we find that his wife is repreatedly unfaithful, so he sends her back home to her "respectable" mother.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/american_literature_essays/84541   (616 words)

  
 Winesburg, Ohio (novel) Summary
Sherwood Anderson, now regarded as one of the most important American writers in the short-story form, was born to Irwin McLain Anderson and Emma Smith in Camden, Ohio, on 13 September 1876 and raised in Clyde, Ohio.
In his novel Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson selected a typical American small town as the setting.
The setting is unusual because one expects such a town to be best suited for a "happily ever after" story; but Anderson successfully utilized the it to expose the loneliness, alienation, and stress that can be associated with small town life.
www.bookrags.com /Winesburg,_Ohio_(novel)   (422 words)

  
 Playbill News: Philly's Arden Theatre Stages East Coast Premiere of Musical Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio was originally commissioned as a one-act piece by Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Arts Exchange Program and was then further developed with support from Steppenwolf in association with Eric Rosen's About Face Theatre Company.
Most recently, Winesburg, Ohio was chosen to participate as one of eight musicals in the prestigious National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival for New Musicals in September 2004.
This Winesburg, Ohio is a beautiful telling of the most remarkable Sherwood Anderson stories, and we are thrilled to be producing the East coast premiere.
www.playbill.com /news/article/95528.html   (781 words)

  
 Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg, Ohio
However this moment of freedom from the reserve that makes Alice “grotesque” is suspended and Alice ‘dropped to the ground and lay trembling.’ (63) Alice appears to be ashamed of her sudden release of emotion because she ‘crawls on hands and knees through the grass’ (64) like a frightened animal.
In his essay “Winesburg, Ohio: Art and Isolation”, Fussel argues that only a sentimental reading of Winesburg, Ohio fails to recognise that the “grotesques’” anxiety to escape their isolation is in itself excessive and symptomatic of their “grotesquerie”.
It has been argued that the intention of writing Winesburg, Ohio is ‘to show that life in all American small towns is grotesque in the same way.’ Anderson shows compassion for his characters and expresses dismay at the social order that marginalises them.
www.angelfire.com /zine/donnamford/anderson.html   (2580 words)

  
 Wal-Mart Opens Store In Winesburg, Ohio | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
WINESBURG, OH–In a move retail-industry insiders are calling "thematically fitting," Wal-Mart opened its newest store Monday in Winesburg, a town of 25,000 in northern Ohio.
Since the turn of the century, the citizens of Winesburg have developed a national reputation for spiritual and emotional frustration and dashed ambitions.
Mitch Ennis, Wal-Mart's director of north-central Ohio operations, is confident that the Winesburg Wal-Mart will fast become one of the top-performing retail stores in his region.
www.theonion.com /content/node/28396   (1013 words)

  
 Arden Theatre Company | Winesburg, Ohio | Production Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Winesburg, Ohio was originally commissioned as a one-act musical by Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
This production catapulted the piece into the national spotlight and Winesburg was soon selected as one of six musicals to present a 45-minute workshop at the prestigious National Alliance of Musical Theatre Festival for New Musicals in New York City last fall.
I fell in love with Winesburg, Ohio the first time I listened to a recording of some selections from the show.
www.ardentheatre.org /2006/winesburg_notes.html   (653 words)

  
 Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Dedrick going on about how great it was when she assigned us to read it in high-school, and it actually lived up to her enthusiasm.
Winesburg, Ohio reminded me of Spoon River, only the people involved were alive, not dead, and the format was prose, not poetry.
I was looking for something to read, and Winesburg was on my shelf, and so I took it down and read it while proctoring final exams.
www.dougshaw.com /Reviews/review24.html   (536 words)

  
 FREE Study Guide for Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson-BIOGRAPHY-Free Online Book notes/Chapter ...
Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio, on September 13th 1876, but spent his formative years in a small town, Clyde, which inspired the setting for many of his stories.
Sherwood Anderson through his 'Winesburg, Ohio' established himself as a leading figure in the Chicago literary Renaissance, and marked a new Realism in American writing.
The town of Winesburg, which is the setting for all the stories is based on his fond memories of Clyde, his hometown.
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 Amazon.com: Winesburg, Ohio: Books: Sherwood Anderson,Irving Howe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) by Sherwood Anderson
The writer has a wonderful sense of place and the town of Winesburg in the early part of the 20th Century is very real.
In Winesburg, Ohio Anderson achieves an emotional honesty and a penetration into the nuance of human feelings that is remarkable and timeless.
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 Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson 0
In 1915-16 Anderson had begun to write and in 1919 he published the stories that comprise Winesburg, Ohio, stories that form, in sum, a sort of looselystrung episodic novel.
No sooner did Winesburg, Ohio make its appearance than a number of critical labels were fixed on it: the revolt against the village, the espousal of sexual freedom, the deepening of American realism.
Brushing against one another, passing one another in the streets or the fields, they see bodies and hear voices, but it does not really matter - they are disconnected, psychically lost.
www.classicbookshelf.com /library/sherwood_anderson/winesburg_ohio/0   (2860 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Winesburg, Ohio: Books: Sherwood Anderson,Richard Ford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This young man proves a magnet for the grotesques of Winesburg, since he offers an unspoken promise of future validation of their universal failures and frustrations.
Winesburg, Ohio may be well written, but that doesn't matter because it's not about anything.
Winesburg, Ohio is a town that is supposed to represent any small town in middle America, and the stories in this collection deal with the everyday lives of its inhabitants.
www.amazon.ca /Winesburg-Ohio-Sherwood-Anderson/dp/0060010258   (1757 words)

  
 Anderson, Sherwood: Winesburg, Ohio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Considered to be one of Sherwood Anderson's greatest works, "Winesburg, Ohio" is the portrayal of a fictitious American town and its inhabitants.
"Winesburg, Ohio" is a collection of connected short stories depicting a variety of themes of rural American life.
Heralded for its beautiful realism, "Winesburg, Ohio," is a classic collection of American stories whose influence upon American literature is considered to be nothing short of profound.
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 Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio: Sherwood Anderson and People dealing with emotions.
In the novel, Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson discusses the emotions of characters throughout the novel.
Nobody in the city of Winesburg could understand why the two married.
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 Hands by Sherwood Anderson
Across a long field that had been seeded for clover but that had produced only a dense crop of yellow mustard weeks, he cold see the public highway along which went a wagon filled with berry pickers returning from the fields.
The nervous expressive fingers, flashing in and out of the light, might well have been mistaken for the fingers of the devotee going swiftly through decade after decade of his rosary.
This book, a collection of related stories about life in a small town, appealed t young people because of its theme of youth in revolt against respectability and the conventions of commercial society.
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