Sherwood Anderson
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A little-known masterpiece, this cycle of short stories concerns life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century and forever changed the course of American storytelling. Bittersweet and richly insightful, it reveals Sherwood Anderson's special talent for taking small moments and transforming them into timeless folk tales—a talent that inspired a generation of writers including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck. At...
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Many Marriages (1923) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to establish himself as a professional writer, Anderson explores the guilts, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives of many Americans in the early-twentieth century. Although he is, known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist fiction admired for its plainspoken language...
4) Poor white
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'Poor White' captures the spirit of small-town America during the Machine Age.
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"The Triumph of the Egg, Sherwood Anderson's 1921 collection of poems and short stories, focuses on the alienating and disruptive moments of American small-town life. Similar in tone to its more famous sibling-Winesburg, Ohio-Triumph focuses on the driving issues of the early 20th c. Midwest: modernization, increasing industrialization, the growth of big business, and the Great Migration"--Amazon.com.
"'The Triumph of the Egg' is a short story collection...
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This autobiographical novel by the writer of Winesburg, Ohio recounts a young boy's childhood in the latenineteenth-century rural Midwest.
Sherwood Anderson established his reputation as a great American writer with his sensitive portrayals of Midwestern life at the turn of the twentieth century. First published in 1926, Tar: A Midwest Childhood, is Anderson's reflection on the Ohio small town of his youth and the experiences that informed and inspired...
7) Marching Men
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Marching Men (1917) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson's second novel is a coming of age story that explores the individual and collective identities shaping American life. Although he is known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist literature admired for its plainspoken language and psychological detail, Anderson's Marching Men is a powerful work of fiction that helped...
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Gallo Nero Ediciones
Pub. Date
2015
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Español
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F. Scott Fitzgerald definió Muchos matrimonios una de las mejores novelas de Sherwood Anderson
El libro abraza la tesis del fracaso de la institución del matrimonio, es decir de la monogamia. Por esta razón fue vetado en muchas librerías de Estados Unidos y de Inglaterra y creó no pocos problemas a su editor. A pesar de ello Fitzgerald afirmó que no se trataba de un libro inmoral sino de un libro ferozmente antisocial. El mismo...
El libro abraza la tesis del fracaso de la institución del matrimonio, es decir de la monogamia. Por esta razón fue vetado en muchas librerías de Estados Unidos y de Inglaterra y creó no pocos problemas a su editor. A pesar de ello Fitzgerald afirmó que no se trataba de un libro inmoral sino de un libro ferozmente antisocial. El mismo...
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Windy McPherson's Son (1916) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson's debut novel is a coming of age story that explores themes of unhappiness and infidelity while illustrating the frustrations of the son of an abusive father. Although he is known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist fiction admired for its plainspoken language and psychological detail, Anderson's Windy...
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Published two years after the innovative, influential 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, this collection of short stories solidified the author's reputation as a major American writer. Despite their narrative simplicity (similar in style to the work of Hemingway, who was highly influenced by Anderson's technique), these stories explore intriguing psychological depths, redolent with personal epiphanies, erotic undercurrents, and sudden eruptions of...
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Fourteen of Sherwood Anderson's best work: The Dumb Man.--I Want to Know Why.--Seeds.--The Other Woman.--The Egg.--Unlighted Lamps.--Senility.--The Man in the Brown Coat.--Brothers.--The Door of the Trap.--The New Englander.--War.--Motherhood.--Out of Nowhere Into Nothing. Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to...
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"Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories" is a collection of fifteen stories published in 1921. It includes some of his greatest works: "The Egg," a story about the struggle to find success and happiness in the American Midwest, "I'm a Fool," about a young man who sabotages his chance at love because of his own feelings of inferiority, and "I Want to Know Why," about the confusion and desperation felt by a boy entering adulthood.
14) Dark Laughter
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Dark Laughter (1925) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to establish himself as a professional writer, Anderson explores the guilts, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives of many Americans in the early-twentieth century. Although he is, known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist fiction admired for its plainspoken language...
15) Winesburg, Ohio
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Open Road Español
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2014
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Los habitantes de Winesburg, Ohio anhelan las pasiones, las esperanzas, el futuro. Pero el pueblo tiene la cualidad de atraparlos.En el centro de estas 22 historias sobre los personajes y la vida de un pueblo del Medio Oeste americano está George Willard. Un joven reportero del periódico local a quien los solitarios del pueblo le hacen sus confidencias.Winesburg, Ohio es la obra maestra de Sherwood Anderson. Este libro, publicado en 1919, influyó
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The essential collection of avant-garde writing by the twentieth-century literary icon and author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
Gertrude Stein was one of the most influential and challenging American writers of the twentieth century. This collection of her writings from 1908 to 1920 demonstrates both the evolution of her craft and the range of styles and genres employed in her unconventional experiments.
Here is Stein the literary Cubist,...
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Library of America ; 235
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Library of America
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[2012]
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English
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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...
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Four Walls Eight Windows
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[1992]
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English
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Until now there has never been a selection of Anderson's best short fiction. Certain Things Last is the first one-volume edition of Anderson's stories. But what makes this book truly remarkable is that five of Anderson's very best stories appear in print here for the first time. They are: "Certain Things Last," "Fred," "The Red Dog," "Mrs. Wife," and "The Masterpiece." The discovery of these new stories makes Certain Things Last an unprecedented publishing...
20) Short stories
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American century ; AC52
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Hill and Wang
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[1962]
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English