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Winesburg, Ohio: & The Triumph Of The Egg

☻ This edition binds together two of Sherwood Anderson's best-known works: Winesburg, Ohio & The Triumph Of The Egg

Winesburg, Ohio - A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life
Short stories by the American author, revolving around George Willard, from his youth to his abandonment of Winesburg while still a young man.

The Triumph Of The Egg
A 1921 short story collection published after Winesburg, Ohio.

336 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 3, 2014

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About the author

Sherwood Anderson

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Often autobiographical, works of American writer Sherwood Anderson include Winesburg, Ohio (1919).

He supported his family and consequently never finished high school. He successfully managed a paint factory in Elyria before 1912 and fathered three children with the first of his four wives. In 1912, Anderson deserted his family and job.

In early 1913, he moved to Chicago, where he devoted more time to his imagination. He broke with considered materialism and convention to commit to art as a consequently heroic model for youth.

Mainly know for his short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. One can hear its profound influence on fiction in Ernest Miller Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Clayton Wolfe, John Ernst Steinbeck, and Erskine Preston Caldwell.

Most important book collects 22 stories. The stories explore the inhabitants of a fictional version of Clyde, the small farm town, where Anderson lived for twelve early years. These tales made a significant break with the traditional short story. Instead of emphasizing plot and action, Anderson used a simple, precise, unsentimental style to reveal the frustration, loneliness, and longing in the lives of his characters. The narrowness of Midwestern small-town life and their own limitations stunt these characters.

Despite no wholly successful novel, Anderson composed several classic short stories. He influenced Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and the coming generation.

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A writing style to be lived, as one becomes part of the story of each character, his/her emotions, wandering thoughts that drift as they yet prevail.
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