Winesburg, Ohio : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism /

"This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1919 first book edition of the stories, with Harald Toksvig's original map of the fictional Winesburg. A thoughtful and thought-provoking preface and expanded explanatory footnotes by Marc K. Dudley. Selections from Anderson's memoirs, two o...

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Main Authors: Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 (Author)
Group Author: Dudley, Marc K., 1971- (Editor)
Published: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: [2023]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Second edition.
Series: A Norton critical edition
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Summary: "This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1919 first book edition of the stories, with Harald Toksvig's original map of the fictional Winesburg. A thoughtful and thought-provoking preface and expanded explanatory footnotes by Marc K. Dudley. Selections from Anderson's memoirs, two of them new to the Second Edition. Eight contemporary reviews of Winesburg, Ohio by critics including William Faulkner and H. L. Mencken. Nine interpretive essays, five of them new to the Second Edition. A chronology and an updated selected bibliography"--
Carrier Form: xiii, 304 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780393284980
0393284980
Index Number: PS3501
CLC: I712.45
Call Number: I712.45/A549-7
Contents: Machine generated contents note:
The Book of the Grotesque --
Hands -- concerning Wing Biddlebaum --
Paper Pills -- concerning Doctor Reefy --
Mother -- concerning Elizabeth Willard --
The Philosopher -- concerning Doctor Parcival --
Nobody Knows -- concerning Louise Trunnion --
Godliness --
Concerning Jesse Bentley --
Surrender -- concerning Louise Bentley --
Terror -- concerning David Hardy --
A Man of Ideas -- concerning Joe Welling --
Adventure -- concerning Alice Hindman --
Respectability -- concerning Wash Williams --
The Thinker -- concerning Seth Richmond --
Tandy -- concerning Tandy Hard --
The Strength of God -- concerning The Reverend Curtis Hartman --
The Teacher -- concerning Kate Swift --
Loneliness -- concerning Enoch Robinson --
An Awakening -- concerning Belle Carpenter --
"Queer" -- concerning Elmer Cowley --
The Untold Lie -- concerning Ray Pearson --
Drink -- concerning Tom Foster --
Death -- concerning Doctor Reefy and Elizabeth Willard --
Sophistication -- concerning Helen White.