Winesburg, Ohio

Author: Sherwood Anderson

Library Journal praised this edition of Sherwood Anderson’s famed short stories as “the finest edition of this seminal work available.” Reconstructed to be as close to the original text as possible, Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In “Hands,” Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania t….Read More

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