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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