Sherwood Anderson : collected stories

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Title:

Sherwood Anderson : collected stories

Author:

Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 author.

ISBN:

9781598532043

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Literary Classics of the United States, 2012

Physical Description:

898 p., [7] p. plates Map 21 cm.

General Note:

Includes Chronology, Note on the Texts, Acknowledgments, Notes

Contents:

Winesburg, Ohio. 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 (parts I and II): concerning Jesse Bentley ; Surrender (part III): concerning Louise Bentley ; Terror (part IV): 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 ; Departure: concerning George Willard -- The triumph of the egg. Impressions in clay (by Tennessee Mitchell ; photographs by Eugene Hutchinson) ; 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 ; The man with the trumpet -- Horses and men. Foreword ; Dreiser ; I'm a fool ; The triumph of a modern ; "Unused" ; A Chicago hamlet ; The man who became a woman ; Milk bottles ; The sad horn blowers ; The man's story ; An Ohio pagan -- Death in the woods and other stories. Death in the woods ; The return ; There she is, she is taking her bath ; The lost novel ; The fight ; Like a queen ; That sophistication ; In a strange town ; These mountaineers ; A sentimental journey ; A jury case ; Another wife ; A meeting south ; The flood ; Why they got married ; Brother death -- Uncollected stories. Sister ; The white streak ; Certain things last ; Off balance ; I get so I can't go on ; Mr. Joe's doctor ; The corn planting ; Feud ; Harry breaks through ; Mrs. Wife ; Two lovers ; White spot ; Nobody laughed ; A landed proprietor ; The persistent liar.

Personal Subject:

Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941-Chronology.

Subject Term:

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories.

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 the modern era. Hart Crane, one of the first to recognize Anderson's genius, quickly hailed his accomplishment.

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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 Prize-winning book critic)

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: "America should read this book on her knees."

Here--for the first time in a single volume--are 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 nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's 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.

Author Notes

Sherwood Anderson was born on September 13, 1876, in Camden, Ohio, and grew up in nearby Clyde. In 1898 he joined the U.S. Army and served in the Spanish-American War. In 1900 he enrolled in the Wittenberg Academy. The following year he moved to Chicago where he began a successful business career in advertising.

Despite his business success, in 1912 Anderson walked away to pursue writing full time. His first novel was Windy McPherson's Son, published in 1916, and his second was Marching Men, published in 1917. The phenomenally successful Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of short stories about fictionalized characters in a small midwestern town, followed in 1919. Anderson wrote novels including The Triumph of the Egg, Poor White, Many Marriages, and Dark Laughter, but it was his short stories that made him famous. Through his short stories he revolutionized short fiction and altered the direction of the modern short story. He is credited with influencing such writers as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Anderson died in March, 1941, of peritonitis suffered during a trip to South America. The epitaph he wrote for himself proclaims, "Life, not death, is the great adventure."

(Bowker Author Biography)

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