Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories (LOA #235): Winesburg Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / uncollected stories (Library of America 235)
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The first complete anthology of short stories by the creator of the American short story includes the landmark collection Winesburg Ohio (Michael Dirda Pulitzer Prizewinning book critic) In the winter of 1912 Sherwood Anderson (18761941) 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 Andersons genius quickly hailed his accomplishment: America should read this book on her knees. Herefor the first time in a single volumeare all the collections Anderson published during his lifetime: Winesburg Ohio (1919) The Triumph of the Egg (1921) Horses and Men (1923) and Death in the Woods (1933) along with a generous selection of stories left uncollected or unpublished at his death. Exploring the hidden recesses of small-town life these haunting understated often sexually frank stories pivot on seemingly quiet moments when lives change futures are recast and pasts come to reckon. They transformed the tone of American storytelling inspiring writers like Hemingway Faulkner and Mailer and defining a tradition of midwestern fiction that includes Charles Baxter editor of this volume. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing and keeping permanently in print Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date authoritative editions that average 1 000 pages in length feature cloth covers sewn bindings and ribbon markers and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
