Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
Autor(a) de Winesburg, Ohio
About the Author
Sherwood Anderson was born on September 13, 1876, in Camden, Ohio, and grew up in nearby Clyde. In 1898 he joined the U.S. Army and served in the Spanish-American War. In 1900 he enrolled in the Wittenberg Academy. The following year he moved to Chicago where he began a successful business career mostrar mais in advertising. Despite his business success, in 1912 Anderson walked away to pursue writing full time. His first novel was Windy McPherson's Son, published in 1916, and his second was Marching Men, published in 1917. The phenomenally successful Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of short stories about fictionalized characters in a small midwestern town, followed in 1919. Anderson wrote novels including The Triumph of the Egg, Poor White, Many Marriages, and Dark Laughter, but it was his short stories that made him famous. Through his short stories he revolutionized short fiction and altered the direction of the modern short story. He is credited with influencing such writers as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Anderson died in March, 1941, of peritonitis suffered during a trip to South America. The epitaph he wrote for himself proclaims, "Life, not death, is the great adventure." (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods /… (2012) 134 exemplares
Delphi Collected Works of Sherwood Anderson (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Ten Book 3) (2019) 7 exemplares
Sherwood Anderson's Notebook Containing Articles Written During the Author's Life As a Story Teller, and… (1926) 7 exemplares
Hands [short story] 6 exemplares
Return to Winesburg; selections from four years of writing for a country newspaper (1967) 4 exemplares
A new testament 4 exemplares
Departure 3 exemplares
A Story Teller's Story a Critical Text 3 exemplares
The Book of the Grotesque 3 exemplares
Godliness 3 exemplares
Vader is de beste — Autor — 3 exemplares
The Man Who Became a Woman 3 exemplares
Paper Pills 3 exemplares
Loneliness 2 exemplares
El cuento norteamericano contemporáneo 2 exemplares
The Strength of God 2 exemplares
The Untold Lie (Selected Short Stories) 2 exemplares
Risa negra 2 exemplares
The Philosopher 2 exemplares
Sherwood Anderson - A Short Story Collection 2 exemplares
La canción de las máquinas: Y otros artículos (Barlin Paisaje) (Spanish Edition) (2018) 2 exemplares
Sophistication (Selected Short Stories) 2 exemplares
Death (Selected Short Stories) 2 exemplares
Respectability (Selected Short Stories) 2 exemplares
Winesburg, Ohio und andere Erzählungen 2 exemplares
Nobody Knows (Selected Short Stories) 2 exemplares
Mother (Selected Short Stories) 2 exemplares
Racconti dell'Ohio 2 exemplares
SHERWOOD ANDERSON PREMIUM COLLECTION 8 BOOKS (5 Novels 3 Short Story Collections) (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book… (2014) 2 exemplares
Unlighted Lamps 2 exemplares
The Teacher 2 exemplares
Solitudine (in Winesburg, Ohio) 2 exemplares
Seeds 2 exemplares
Nice Girl 2 exemplares
Mahavaikitud vale 2 exemplares
Novelle americane moderne 2 exemplares
Tandy (in Winesburg, Ohio) 2 exemplares
Μαῦρο γέλιο: Μυθιστόρημα 1 exemplar
Brothers 1 exemplar
Wines burg Ohio (Alma Classics) 1 exemplar
Anderson Sherwood 1 exemplar
The Other Woman 1 exemplar
El triunfo del huevo : un libro de impresiones sobre la vida estadounidense en cuentos y poemas (2019) 1 exemplar
Ubogi belec 1 exemplar
Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson 1 exemplar
Mani (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
Selected Short Stories Of Sherwood Anderson 1 exemplar
Il meglio 5 1 exemplar
Winesburg,Ohi (Illustrated) 1 exemplar
小城畸人 1 exemplar
windy McPherson son 1 exemplar
WINESBURGO, OHIO. 1 exemplar
Winesburg in Ohio 1 exemplar
Sint un natarau 1 exemplar
Rare Sherwood Anderson / Tar A Midwest Childhood Signed 1926 [Hardcover] Anderson, Sherwood 1 exemplar
Drink 1 exemplar
An Awakening 1 exemplar
Thoughts 1 exemplar
The Man of Ideas 1 exemplar
The Thinker 1 exemplar
Queer 1 exemplar
Mørk latter 1 exemplar
Main Street Tales (Little Blue Book #865) 1 exemplar
The Man's Story [short story] 1 exemplar
Brother Death (Selected Short Stories) 1 exemplar
Madre (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
The Sad Horn Blowers 1 exemplar
Der Erzähler erzählt sein Leben. Übertragen von Karl Lerbs. Deutsche EA. Fraktura, Lesebändchen… (1927) 1 exemplar
Un risveglio (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
"Bizzarro" (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
6 Mid-American Chants by Sherwood Anderson, 11 Midwest Photographs by Art Sinsabaugh (1964) 1 exemplar
Sophistication {short story} 1 exemplar
La menzogna non detta (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
Ebbrezza (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
La morte (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
Hands, Winesburg, Ohio 1 exemplar
Complicazione (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
Smrt v lese 1 exemplar
Partenza (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
Kematian di Dalam Hutan 1 exemplar
A complete Novel- Stories and other writings 1 exemplar
A Meeting South 1 exemplar
The Contract 1 exemplar
Kćeri 1 exemplar
Out of Nowhere into Nothing 1 exemplar
Palline di carta (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
Il filosofo (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
Nessuno lo sa (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
L'eletto del Signore (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
A Man of Ideas (Selected Short Stories) 1 exemplar
Un uomo pieno di idee (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
Avventura (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
Dignità (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
Il pensieroso (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
צחוק אפל 1 exemplar
Poor White and Other Works by Sherwood Anderson (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) 1 exemplar
La forza di Dio (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
La maestra (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 exemplar
Santidad y otros cuentos de Winesburgo 1 exemplar
Městečko v ohiu 1 exemplar
Associated Works
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Contribuidor — 436 exemplares
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 174 exemplares
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contribuidor — 146 exemplares
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Contribuidor — 102 exemplares
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Cowboy Dances. A Collection of Western Square Dances. With a foreword by Sherwood Anderson. Appendix Cowboy Dance Tunes… (1939) — Prefácio — 30 exemplares
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1921) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1922) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1919) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Great American Short Stories: O. Henry Memorial Prize Winning Stories, 1919-1934 (1935) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
The Best Short Stories of 1923 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1924) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Our lives : American labor stories — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (2017) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
America Writes: Learning English through American Short Stories (1997) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
The Best Short Stories of 1927 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1927) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Wives and Lovers — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Modern Short Stories — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
The Best Short Stories of 1929 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1929) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 2 (1954) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
America through the short story — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
5 Book LOT: International Collectors Library. History of Tom Jones / Late George Apley / Winesburg, Ohio / Short… (1960) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1876-09-13
- Data de falecimento
- 1941-03-08
- Localização do túmulo
- Round Hill Cemetery, Marion, Virginia, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- VS
- Local de nascimento
- Camden, Ohio, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Colón, Panama
- Causa da morte
- peritonitis occasioned by a swallowed toothpick
- Locais de residência
- Clyde, Ohio, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Elyria, Ohio, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Troutdale, Virginia, USA (mostrar todos 7)
Camden, Ohio, USA (birth) - Educação
- Wittenberg University
- Ocupações
- novelist
short-story writer
poet
essayist
copywriter
editor (mostrar todos 9)
salesman
lecturer
reporter - Organizações
- United Factories Co. (president)
Anderson Manufacturing Co. (president)
United States Army - Prémios e menções honrosas
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1937)
Dial Award (1921)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2012)
Membros
Discussions
WINESBURG, OHIO Group Read beginning in March em 75 Books Challenge for 2022 (Março 2022)
Críticas
Listas
Five star books (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Modernism (1)
1910s (1)
Out of Copyright (1)
Sense of place (1)
E's Reader (1)
Unread books (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 175
- Also by
- 98
- Membros
- 7,895
- Popularidade
- #3,075
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 144
- ISBN
- 542
- Línguas
- 16
- Marcado como favorito
- 14
The bad: first thing, the ridiculous setting. It feels like 90% of what's referred to as "great American" works or on those top 100 lists is set in some rural, pastoral town which feels like a complete fantasy. I cannot believe for one second this town exists. I feel kind of stupid saying this, given he was born and presumably grew up in such a town, but what's shown is not a town. He describes random houses and random people. Nobody wants for money, even if they're poor. There is no town past a few houses where characters live. Characters that should exist don't. There are no consequences. Nothing makes sense. This is what killed the book for me. I'm so sick of these utopian, rural towns, the conception of which is incredibly reactionary. Maybe this is unfair on the book itself but ugh. Nobody in the town has a life, except for what's described in each person's story. It's frustrating. The artificiality of the book shone through - ostensibly it's a reflection of reality yet it feels like fantasy.
Every character's story is a sort of melancholy. The first chapter warns us that every character is going to be a "grotesque," but it's ridiculous. Everybody has some sort of obvious but ridiculous and unlikely problem and ridiculous thoughts. They don't do anything except for the one event described by the story. A sad thing happens but although it defines their life for us the events don't change how they think or how they live. Apparently nobody can get over anything. Everything is static, even when it describes an incredibly long period of time. Nobody reacts to what happens.
There feels a strong divide between the description of what people do and how they think/what they are/what's going on. One character is described as having serious trouble speaking and apparently having serious, debilitating delusions yet he has a whole load of friends and a wife. It doesn't match at all. One character apparently goes through being walked home by a dude for 2 years (!) with nothing else happening - not even inviting him in to her house - and then suddenly decides she doesn't like it. Ok sure whatever. I can't think of many specific examples, just a general pervasive sense that the characters aren't real and what we're being told once doesn't fit what we're told later.
What made me give up on the book is incredibly minor but was the straw that broke the camel's back. A minor character is called "Sugars McNutts." The rest of the book is deadly serious. Come on.
I think my strong dislike of this book is influenced by how I'm feeling right now and is pretty over the top but my frustrations are real and all too typical of this sort of book. One star is maybe too little but what I liked about it was constantly overshadowed by the problems. It quickly felt like a chore to read. I didn't feel like I was reading about humans or anything that happens in real life.
later note: As I said I think my review is probably unfair. It's at least a little better than I make out, it just hit a lot of my pet peeves… (mais)