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Title: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, Ford Richard ISBN: 0-06-001025-8 Publisher: HarperAudio Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 6 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (55 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Portraits of the Human Condition -- American Style
Comment: Many writers in American literature have tried to gather the conscience of America by traveling across the landscape of the country to pinpoint something truly American. Sherwood Anderson does so by placing his story (or stories) in one single, Midwestern town called Winesburg, Ohio. The stories that present the personalities of the residents of Winesburg are quite eloquently written. The characters of Winesburg are odd, horrific, lonely, young, old, and beautifully human. The time period may have past, but Anderson's characters continue their lives by something Anderson has captured from American culture.
Rating: 5
Summary: Magnificent Portraiture
Comment: Winesburg, Ohio preceded Main Street by one year, but was predated by the Spoon River Anthology. Hand in hand with Masters and Lewis, Anderson gained immortality with this stunning exposure of the stifling American hamlet. The book is really more a short story collection than a novel, though the piecemeal narrative is strung together by the presence of George Willard, a young man soon to depart for Columbus in search of newspaper work. The vignettes are true miracles of simplicity and force; characters such as Wings Biddelbaum, the alleged child molesting school teacher, and Enoch Johnson, a mentally unstable young man who "lost his voices" while living in New York and who is now "all alone", are drawn in sharp relief against the prosy drabness in their capsule of a town. Perhaps less remarkable and eristic today than it was in the early part of this century, Winesburg, Ohio still deserves merit and attention among this or any other generation of readers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Love, love, love, love, love this book.
Comment: I read this book in my college American Literature class on my way to an English minor. Its still one of my favorite books of all time. In these times where fragmented identities or a disconnect between the surface and the actual is prevalent in our daily lives, I believe literature such as this contains more and more meaning. Please read it.
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Title: In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway ISBN: 0684822768 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 31 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Egg and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson ISBN: 0486414116 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 05 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 0684801523 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Mallon ISBN: 0451526821 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, John Hollander ISBN: 0451525302 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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