Sherwood Anderson

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September 13, 1876 in Camden, Ohio, The United States

died

March 08, 1941

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Sherwood Anderson was an American writer, mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. That work's influence on American fiction was profound, and its literary voice can be heard in Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell and others.

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Average rating: 3.79 · 9,476 ratings · 924 reviews · 72 distinct works

	Winesburg, Ohio 3.79 avg rating — 8,831 ratings — published 1919 — 153 editions	My rating:
	The Egg and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson, Dover Thrift Editions 3.93 avg rating — 137 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Death in the Woods: And Other Stories 4.03 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1933 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Poor White 3.71 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1920 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Certain Things Last: The Selected Short Stories by Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin (Introduction) 4.32 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Portable Sherwood Anderson 4.40 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1949 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Triumph of the Egg 3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1919 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Dark Laughter 3.00 avg rating — 28 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Windy McPherson's Son 3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1916 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Beyond Desire 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1932 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

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“You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Unknown Book 7774370

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“Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

tags: accident , disappointment , love

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