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Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

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Nov 27, 2018 Chrissie rated it did not like it

Shelves: disliked, 2018-read, audible-uk, usa, life-stages, returned, shorts, hf, classics

I cannot say I enjoyed the classic Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson. It is a a string of interrelated stories about people living in a fictitious town called Winesburg, modeled on the author's early years growing up in Clyde, Ohio. The time setting is the early 1900s. There are lots and lots of characters, but one returns to a handful over and over again; it is in this way we learn of their pasts. The central character is George Willard; we follow his growth toward manhood and his eventual d ...more

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Dec 16, 2019 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it it was amazing

Shelves: history, classics, read-in-2019, short-stories

This past summer my husband read one of the stories from this book. When he described it to me I immediately looked it up found where it originally came from and added it to my TBR. I am so glad that I did.

Winesburg, Ohio is a quiet, smart and nuanced book exposing the difficulty of life in small-town America during industrialization. Each story is interrelated and although there is no real protagonist there are characters that walk the pages of the entire book. The stories are sad, lonely, deso ...more

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