false 80176 84 ... there is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the centre is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town's `grotesques' - solitary figures unable to communicate with others. George is their conduit for expression and solace from loneliness, but he has his own longings which eventually draw him away from home to seek a career in the city. He carries with him the dreams and unuttered words of remarkable characters such as Wing Biddlebaum, the disgraced former teacher, and the story-telling Doctor Parcival. The book has influenced many American writers, including ernest hemingway, William Faulkner, John Updike, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates. It reshaped the development of the modern short story, turning the genre away from an emphasis upon plot towards a capability for illuminating the emotional lives of ordinary people. This new edition corrects errors in earlier editions and takes into account major criticism and textual scholarship of the last several decades. 191520 book 1919 Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics) total:3502|5:1099|4:1198|3:838|2:284|1:83| 3502 13452 4780 413 5 54 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 05:39:43 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 19:59:45 -0700 2009 Blue Velvet) -- not so much for its omens of severed ears and one-armed men, but for its wealth of turbulent emotion (e.g., rage, despair, lust, contempt... all the good ...more...]]> 4 31 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 19:26:41 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 21:17:22 -0800 2009 Cannery Row was influenced by Winesburg, Ohio; that this book was a favorite for Wolfe, for Faulkner, for Hemingway, for Henry Miller, for David Kowalski, for brian gottlieb, for Ben, for Chris, for Philip R...more...]]> 5 22 false false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 17:14:02 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 22:27:27 -0700 2009
I loved its drab mood, and existential feel.

I loved the descriptive writing, and the small town, midwest setting, with the seasons and people changing, but life in general, staying the same.

I loved the wild brilliance to the endings.
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Okay, fine, I didn't like it.

I believe I had a crisis of faith whilst reading Winesburg, Ohio. One of the bestest reasons for GR is that I've been exposed to writers that I'd never heard of and to reviews that made me sit up and say 'To the library, NOW' and I really wante...more...]]> 5 6 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 08:05:21 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 08:06:48 -0700 2007 Winesburg, Ohio and then I read it again. It is unlike any other book that I know which is surprising since it was published in 1919. One would think that a highly regarded novel with such a unique style would have been emulated more often. Perhaps it has.

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A) Fall in love with a girl
B) This might be hard to arrange by yourself, but the girl has to move away from you- but not because you split or anyt...more...]]> 3 9 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 11:14:40 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 08:23:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 6 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 09 13:40:09 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 15 06:23:47 -0700 2007
The common problem in these stories is that the characters in Winesburg feel too much, and t...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Apr 30 06:17:31 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 30 06:20:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 06:14:42 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 19 18:46:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 13 19:19:04 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 19:58:59 -0700 2008 Winesburg, Ohio is a 1919 novel told in short stories - a then-experimental form - mostly of ordinary individuals running up against a culture that has no accepted outlet for their feelings of intensity and longing. The stories are c...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 07:23:47 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 07:32:08 -0800 2008 The old man had list...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 23 07:25:44 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 23 07:30:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Mar 06 10:21:29 -0800 2007 Tue Mar 06 14:30:19 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 28 13:28:38 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 13:34:58 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 15:58:22 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 20 11:54:58 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 05:22:57 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 06:08:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 09:41:15 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 09:50:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 05 10:38:38 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 10:51:31 -0700 2009
Some months later I gave it another try. This ti...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 10 10:13:42 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 13:13:28 -0700 2007 more...]]>