Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson

Category: Classic, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Literature Short Stories
Written by Sherwood Anderson
Read by Terry Bregy
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Listening Length: 6 hours and 28 minutes

Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of stories set in a fictitious town in the 1890s, has long been considered Sherwood Anderson’s masterpiece. This groundbreaking work set the stage for a new era in writing, greatly influencing Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck, among many others. Anderson wrote simply, brilliantly crafting a work that dared to examine the darker impulses of human nature. Considered by many at the time of publication (1919) to be a scandalous work, Winesburg, Ohio has nonetheless survived through the decades as one of the forerunners of modern fiction. Haunting and powerful, it draws readers into the streets and houses of Winesburg - and into the darkly complex lives of each of Anderson’s unforgettable “grotesques.”