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Originally published in 1921.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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I don't think I like Sherwood Anderson at all, with the exception of "Poor White".Another depressing bunch of stories, except for the title story, which was actually very funny in the beginning.All was internal thought, with no real action and, worse, no real resolving of problems.The endings just seemed to dwindle off into nowhere.How this man ever came to be thought of as a great writer is beyond me.And it is puzzling why almost all his characters who have internal dilemmas are women.He is always trying to get inside the mind of a woman and delve into how she perceives sex and men - while she is still a virgin.An obsession with him. ... Read more

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Southern Odyssey contains the best of Sherwood Anderson's writings about the region where he spent the last sixteen years of his life. In more than forty selections of journalism and fiction, Anderson explores the people and problems of the South. ... Read more

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Insightful and unguarded.
These letters won't refute Anderson's reputation for being sentimental. If you don't mind that, this book gives insight into a writer who greatly loved humanity, especially the woman he called "E." ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This book is an important contribution to the field of American literary studies.This critical study of Sherwood Anderson's most famous and perhaps most widely taught work, "Winesburg, Ohio", treats it as a thoroughly modernist novel examining the aesthetic nature of romantic identity.Author Clarence Lindsay argues that Anderson's famous theory of the Grotesque is a theory of American identity. Each of the small town's grotesques in effect authors a romantic narrative that privileges the self. In trying to live their lives by that narrative, each enacts a romantic selfhood. Each of these romantic selfhoods is an aesthetic enterprise, complicated by all the aesthetic issues relating to artist and audience. Every crisis in the novel is an aesthetic crisis; every comedy, every tragedy is an aesthetic misstep of some sort.Lindsay proposes that all moral issues in Winesburg, Ohio are aesthetic; all aesthetic issues are moral. Winesburg's narrator's careful attention to characters' romantic narratives of self provides an ironic scrutiny of not only the astonishing varieties of American romantic identity but also a painstaking interrogation of a variety of romantic discourses.Anderson's radical formal innovation, the interrelated tale, was the perfect American form, not only allowing for the narrator's "democracy of fascination" with the grotesques' absolutely equal competing singularities but also providing for the comic juxtaposition of these claims on uniqueness, a jostling that subverts the traditional novel's emphasis on the singular individual.This first sustained critical analysis of this American classic restores Anderson to the top rank of American artists, placing him alongside other intense scrutinizers of American romanticism: Hawthorne, Melville, and Hemingway. ... Read more

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This Book of Literary Criticism is a Rare Thing
Lindsay begins his introduction with a personal tone, relating how he discovered the wonders of "Winesburg, Ohio."He then engages in a keenly insightful close reading of various "Winesburg' tales that is theoretically rigorous without being burdened by overdone theoretical jargon.His close attention to the exact word choices present in individual paragraphs and how these undermine the reader's initial, culturally conditioned response to the text results in a brilliantly substantive analysis.For me, Lindsay's book helped me reflect more clearly and deeply on the many ambiguities in Anderson's highly subtle and complex text.Never before have I encountered, for instance, such an illuminating analysis of the interpretively challenging story "Hands."Lindsay's book is a truly unusual instance of contemporary literary criticism--all substance, no fluff, and driven by a sincere human investment in what this text can mean to us as readers. ... Read more

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A Significant Authority on the Subject
I have read and now own this work. Over the years, Winesburg has become one of my very favorite novels and I can assure you as a student once instructed by Dr. Dunne at Central Connecticut State University, that he posesses an enormous amount of knowledge aboutAnderson's writings and their many contexts. You will not be disappointed! ... Read more

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Dust jacket notes:"One of the strangest literary friendships was that between Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein.The fact that these two dissimilar writers were close friends and that the friendship was somehow important to the course of American literary history is known, but no one has documented before its depth and importance.Whatever the basis of this friendship, it has become part of the folklore of American literary history that the relationship was indeed significant.Anderson always claimed that Gertrude Stein's writing influenced his own literary style.Miss Stein always claimed to have great affection and appreciation for Sherwood Anderson.Both authors claimed to have influenced the course of American writing - through their own publications and through having taught the basics of fiction to such younger writers as Ernest Hemingway.There are few enough facts available to document these claims of friendship and influence.After all, what sort of friendship could be expected between a sophisticated, highly educated esthete like Gertrude Stein and a comparatively uneducated, naive, midwestern ex-businessman like Sherwood Anderson?They had perhaps half a dozen meetings in the twenty years of their relationship, but from 1921 when they met in Paris until Anderson's death in 1941, each frequently expressed the deepest admiration and respect for the other's work.Together they have greatly influenced American literature and American literary history." ... Read more

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Letters and Essays That Form an Enjoyable Narrative
The letters and essays between these two influential writers form a narrative that reads almost like a novel. I found it helpful for working on my book Stein, Gender, Isolation, and Industrialism: New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio, but I also found it to be an entertaining document about friendship and the writing craft. ... Read more

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A collection of reminiscences illuminating the life of an elusive, ground-breaking American writer.