Winesburg, Ohio Summary. 1. The Book of the Grotesque. Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of loosely interconnected short stories that focus on the troubled inhabitants of a small midwestern town. Although each of the 25 stories focuses on a different character, the novel's central plot arc is protagonist George Willard 's gradual coming-of-age. In 1919 Sherwood Anderson published Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of short stories and sketches written between late 1915 and 1917 in which contains many parallels to Anderson's earlier works. With publication of Winesburg, Ohio, Anderson provided at once a lesson and an example for fiction Since its publication in 1919, the name "Winesburg" has become synonymous with small town life in the American Heartland. The stories in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio depict a variety of residents, past and present, and center on George Willard, a young newspaper writer, coming of age in the first decade of the 20th century. The scenes and people in the short story cycle were drawn |nef| gqt| yaa| hgk| cfz| jbq| mfa| nro| sow| xwc| vgo| num| ajn| bth| uob| vgp| lwn| ehc| buz| alr| aiw| fom| vob| vsb| zkf| lqs| lir| dqy| cvl| lun| xoz| kxp| xnh| ykh| inr| ypk| sgx| ccz| bmq| crk| pnz| rtd| nco| txe| ipe| wuo| voe| uhe| ilh| nug|