Book Review:
"...a panorama, with souls instead of trees, with minds in
place of houses."
-Chicago Daily News, 1919
Audio
Review:
"Audio Bookshelf has done an
excellent job in all aspects. Bregy's rather austere and mysterious narrative
voice sets the perfect tone for these dark tales"
-Kliatt
SYNOPSIS:
Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of stories
set in a fictitious town in the 1890's and is considered Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece.
It was a ground-breaking work and set the stage for a new era of writing, greatly
influencing Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner and John
Steinbeck, among others.
Anderson wrote simply, brilliantly crafting a work
that dared to examine the darker impulses of human nature at a time when acceptable
popular fiction was suffocating in its own gentility and morality. Considered
by many at the time of publication (1919) to be a scandalous work, Winesburg,
Ohio has nonetheless survived throughout the decades as the forerunner of
modern fiction, and has been tranlated into 19 languages. A thumbnail sketch
of the author begins the audiobook production.
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Ages:
15 and up 
Cassette: