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Sherwood Anderson : collected stories

Author: Sherwood Anderson; Charles Baxter
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group (USA), ©2012.
Series: Library of America, 235.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English
Summary:
In the winter of 1912, Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) abruptly left his office and spent three days wandering through the Ohio countryside, a victim of "nervous exhaustion." Over the next few years, abandoning his family and his business, he resolved to become a writer. Novels and poetry followed, but it was with the story collection Winesburg, Ohio that he found his ideal form, remaking the American short story for  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Short stories
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Named Person: Sherwood Anderson
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sherwood Anderson; Charles Baxter
ISBN: 9781598532043 1598532049
OCLC Number: 796756211
Description: ix, 898 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Contents: Winesburg, Ohio --
The triumph of the egg --
Horses and men --
Death in the woods and other stories --
Uncollected stories.
Series Title: Library of America, 235.
Other Titles: Collected stories
Responsibility: Charles Baxter, editor.

Abstract:

In the winter of 1912, Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) abruptly left his office and spent three days wandering through the Ohio countryside, a victim of "nervous exhaustion." Over the next few years, abandoning his family and his business, he resolved to become a writer. Novels and poetry followed, but it was with the story collection Winesburg, Ohio that he found his ideal form, remaking the American short story for the modern era. Hart Crane, one of the first to recognize Anderson's genius, quickly hailed his accomplishment:

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