Winesburg Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)

Winesburg Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Andersons masterpiece a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the center is George Willard a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the towns solitary figures. Andersons stories influenced countless American writers including Hemingway Faulkner Updike Oates and Carver. This new edition corrects errors made in earlier editions and takes into account major criticism and textual scholarship of the last several decades.