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Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the first book edition, published in 1919, and includes Harald Toksvig's original map of the fictional Winesburg. Ample annotation is provided throughout."Backgrounds" includes five of Anderson's letters, which illustrate his ideas about the stories; memoirs in which he wrestles with the revision process; and eight reviews of Winesburg, Ohio by Anderson's contemporaries, among them H. L. Mencken and William Faulkner."Criticism" collects six of the most illuminating assessments of the book published in the last three decades. A variety of perspectives is provided by Walter B. Rideout, Sally Adair Rigsbee, John Updike, Joseph Dewey, Kim Townsend, and David Stouck.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
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sarahbellum
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Pickpick

Finished my last May #roll100 book, Winesburg, Ohio, just in time!

While the openness & forthrightness of Anderson‘s writing was unique for its time, this was just a soft pick for me. I‘m not sure what‘s in the water in Winesburg, but I would definitely not stop for a rest in this town full of unhappy people 😬

My May #bookspinbingo board is complete as well! No bingos and DNF my #bookspin, but finally read a #doublespin during the right month!

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Great month!! 2y
PuddleJumper That's awesome! 2y
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CoffeeNBooks
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Eggs 👏🏻👏🏻 Sherwood Anderson 👏🏻👏🏻 4y
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Michael_Gee
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Pickpick

Shoutout to Public Domain Theater podcast, which read aloud his story “The Egg,” and introduced me to him. This collection has moments of revelation and honesty, esp concerning loneliness and the misunderstandings that arise from attempts to connect. It runs a bit long, and I think there are stories towards the end that can be skipped. There is a nostalgic Americana glow without painting over homophobia, mental illness, and sex.

Michael_Gee Painting: Detail from “The Country School” by Winslow Homer (1871) St Louis Art Museum. 4y
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Michael_Gee
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

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Michael_Gee
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

The story [...] is a very curious story. It is delicious, like the twisted little apples that grow in the orchards of Winesburg. [...] Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

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twohectobooks
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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The world is on fire. Start your pieces in the paper that way. Just say in big letters ´The World Is On Fire.‘ That will make ´em look up.

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twohectobooks
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Mehso-so

I thought there were some really good little bits in this book, but overall I just didn‘t get it. It‘s actually a collection of short stories set in the same pre-WWI American town, broadly featuring the coming of age of a local boy reporter. I found the vast majority of the stories confusing and dare I say a bit pointless.

Alas, another #modernlibrarytop100 disappointment.

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twohectobooks
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Stack of books I read in #2018. This isn‘t all of them, but the rest are either on my iPad, or have been returned to the library/people I borrowed from.

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twohectobooks
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Christmas holiday officially starts today and this is the stack I‘m reading from (I don‘t expect to finish them all). Tagged book isn‘t pictured cuz it‘s on my iPad.

The wind is blowing, the sun‘s coming out, and of course that means the temperature is going down. Maybe, just maybe, it will snow a bit more in time for Christmas.

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tamaria
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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“I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.”

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amber_ldsmom
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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I almost thought I didn‘t have a book with a #stateintitle, but then I remembered I just picked this one up a couple of days ago at a library sale. Yay me!
#ReadingResolutions

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Schuckspeare
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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An essential part of any midwestern writer‘s nutritious breakfast, as seen on https://m.facebook.com/winesburg.org/

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Schuckspeare
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Most readers struggle with two chapters in “Winesburg, Ohio,” ‘The Book of the Grotesque,‘ and ‘Godliness.‘ This video will help you with ‘Godliness.‘
https://youtu.be/cYwgBmaZrnU

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eedevore
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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The perfect setting for starting a new book.

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MrBook
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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The other half of the 20th-Century Classics Authors table. @Andrew65 #LitsyLovesLibraries

UwannaPublishme Is that Steinbeck I see in the corner? So many great choices here! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6y
Andrew65 That‘s a really interesting display with The Hunchback sitting alongside John Steinbeck and Jeeves! Thanks for the tag @MrBook 6y
Dulcinella Super choices! 6y
rwmg Ummmm, surely The Hunchback of Notre Dame was 19th century 6y
MrBook @rwmg Yeah, I changed that one out 😆🙃. Replaced it with a Jules Verne. 👍🏻👍🏻 6y
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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

Helen ran down a flight of stairs at the back of the house and into the garden. In the darkness she stopped and stood trembling. It seemed to her that the world was full of meaningless people saying words.

Suet624 Oh my gosh. Yes. 6y
Garyrej Great oldie! 6y
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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

He had always thought of himself as a successful man, although nothing he had ever done had turned out successfully.

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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night…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 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 make tender by kisses.

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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold by the hour, servants, you see, to his fancy. Among these people he was always self-confident and bold. They might talk, to be sure, and even have opinions of their own, but always he talked last and best. He was like a writer busy among the figures of his brain, a kind of tiny blue-eyed king he was...

batsy Wow. I clearly need to read this and soon. 6y
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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men would forget God and only pay attention to moral standards, when the will to power would replace the will to serve and beauty would be well-nigh forgotten in the terrible headlong rush of mankind toward the acquiring of possessions...

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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.

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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy.

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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.

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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?

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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

Cathythoughts So beautiful ✨ 6y
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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.

Cathythoughts ❤️ 6y
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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.

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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

Cathythoughts I seem to keep missing your posts. Maybe ships passing in the night. In future I will look you up directly! I‘ve been missing your great quotes. (edited) 6y
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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

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.

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Sarah83
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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ManyWordsLater
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Finishing this guy while I wait to board my flight from Paris with my last European espresso.

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rockpools
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Pickpick

Just beautiful. People-watching in Winesburg, Ohio. It's somewhere between a novel and short stories, as George Willard, the young newspaper reporter and son of the proprietors of new Willard House hotel runs across the town residents. We get told of their lives, so many of them trying to fit in or find ... something. And the writing is beautiful!

Thank you @TrishB ! This was one of my SummerSanta gifts, and I love it!

rockpools Also sneaking it in as no3 on my v short #readingroadtrip. And it was published in 1919, so a book published between 1900 and 1950 for #readharder. And #LetterW for #LitsyAtoZ. (edited) 6y
TrishB Glad you enjoyed it 😀 always nice when you pick a book! 6y
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rockpools
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Before such women as Louise can be understood and their lives made livable, much will have to be done. Thoughtful books will have to be written and thoughtful lives lived by people about them.

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rockpools
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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@TrishB Thank you so much! Your sleuthing skills are AWESOME! I opened Winesburg Ohio first, and gasped - I might have raved a tiny bit about Mink River, which was compared to this, but never expected to find a copy 😊. I've *so* wanted to read Ocean Vuong - and Grantchester just looks charming fun! Slightly worried by the booksleeve - have you got access to my Etsy browsing history? Pals at MI5?Or have I been drooling every time this pops up?

CouronneDhiver Well done 👍🏽 7y
rockpools It's perfect! And this is just half of it!
💖 🦉💙I'm off to learn how to index biographies & stuff - I'll post the rest when I get home tonight (if I'm still capable of operating a phone at that point) or first thing tomorrow. Thanks again 😘😘😘#summersantagoespostal #summersolsticebookexchange @bookishmarginalia
7y
rockpools @trishb BUT did yours ever arrive? 7y
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LadyPotterHead Oooh your secret Santa gifted you one of my zleeves!!! 😱🙈😃😃 7y
rockpools @MyBookZleeves I LOVE IT! I've been eyeing that exact one for months, & it's even more lush & lovely irl 😊 7y
LadyPotterHead @RachelO awww I'm so glad 💖💖 7y
TrishB Soooo glad you like them - I really enjoyed choosing, but I can't remember what the rest are. I was really tempted to keep the book zleeve - @MyBookZleeves it's truly lovely! 7y
TrishB Sadly mine has not arrived - should be here sometime next week 😔 I will enjoy looking at everyone else's 😀 7y
LadyPotterHead @TrishB Awwww thank you and what a shame 7y
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Ber135
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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I can already tell Sherwood Anderson is going to leave me with such a big impression he might become one of my favourite writers #Ohio #CurrentlyReading #Classic

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Well-ReadNeck
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Pickpick

An oldie, but a goodie. A friend recommended this one to me and I've put it off many times. This is a group of related short stories about the people who live in a small town in Ohio. The writing in this book is just stunning. Hard to believe it was written so long ago.

CogsOfEncouragement It has been on my tbr & I plan to read it soon! 7y
drokka This was required reading for my 01 Genres English, and I really enjoyed it. I like that it's sort of an anthology of a town. 7y
katedensen Love this one! Not enough people have read it. 7y
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Well-ReadNeck
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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#TBRTuesday

A larger list than usual because I have a few already in progress.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I really enjoyed Hidden Figures and the Veronica Mars! 7y
OSChamberlain Oooooh Tom Perrotta has a new book coming out?? Goodieeeee 7y
Megabooks Jealous of your Perrotta arc! 7y
ChasingOm I love the way you designed this! 7y
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Redjewel_7734
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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#readathonstories @Liberty I love Sherwood Anderson's voice. A quote from "The Egg" (not a part of this collection; I read it in a lit class) is one of my email taglines & even got me an interview once ☺

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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

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.

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GoneFishing
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.

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katedensen
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Pickpick

And for fun, another #somethingforsept #mapsinbooks offering from a less widely read work of early 20th century American fiction. I'm going to double down and make it my pick for #Recommendsday. It's a short, beautiful novella of interconnected stories that take place in the titular town. Think Thornton Wilder's Our Town meets Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology. A subtly poignant exploration of humanity's dormant (or active) grotesquery.

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GuiltyFeat
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Pickpick

Not hard to see how this may have been scandalous back in 1919. It's so earthy and the townspeople of Winesburg are so sexual, that it feels modern and shocking all at once.

A great companion to the Spoon River Anthology. The story "The Untold Lie" is worth the price of admission all by itself.

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AvidReader25
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Pickpick

One of my favorite short story collections. This book gives you a glimpse into the lives of characters who feel incredibly realistic. Their stories are sometimes dark, but always compelling.

bermudaonion @BkClubCare will have a fit if she sees that bell. 8y
LeahBergen That's a lovely copy! 8y
AvidReader25 @bermudaonion I think I sent her a picture of it! It was my Grandma's. She collected bells and when I was little this one was my favorite. I inherited it when she passed away. 8y
BkClubCare I have that bell. We're good. (My gma collected bells, too!) 8y
AvidReader25 @BkClubCare No way! I love it. 8y
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ineverlearn
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Arranged my books by the year when I read them. So this looks like a neat 5-year bar graph of my reading (2011-2015). I will just have to imagine borrowed books stacked among these. Kudos if you can find my favorite book (see tag).

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MatildaBaggins
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa Great quote! 8y
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thesebooksofmine
Winesburg, Ohio: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism | Sherwood Anderson, Charles E. Modlin, Ray Lewis White
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"Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy."

Megabooks I have this on Kindle, but I haven't read it yet. Moving up! 8y
thesebooksofmine @Ebooksandcooks It's a terrific read! 8y
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