ANDERSON, Sherwood.
Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life.
New York: B. W. Huebsch , 1919.
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First Edition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
First edition of Sherwood Anderson's most celebrated work and one of the seminal books of American literary modernism. Octavo, original orange cloth with printed paper spine label, top stain orange, and a map of the town of Winesburg to the front pastedown. First-issue points of the top edge stained yellow, the word "lay" for "lie" in the fifth line of page 86, and broken type in the word "the" in the third line of page 251. In very good condition with bumping and sunning to the spine. Ownership inscription to the half-title page of Lee D. Pfouts of Payson, Utah. Housed in a cloth slipcase with paper labels.
Published in 1919 by B. W. Huebsch, Winesburg, Ohio is a cycle of twenty-two interrelated short stories portraying the secret lives, frustrations, and longings of the inhabitants of a fictional Ohio town, drawn together by the figure of the young newspaper reporter George Willard. Its plain, emotionally direct prose and its sympathetic treatment of isolated and inarticulate characters marked a decisive break from the conventions of the nineteenth-century short story and exerted a profound influence on the next generation of American writers, among them Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Thomas Wolfe, each of whom acknowledged a debt to Anderson. Sherwood Anderson (1876 to 1941) was a central figure of the Chicago literary renaissance, and Winesburg, Ohio remains his enduring masterpiece and one of the most important American books of the twentieth century.
Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life.
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