Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
Autore di Racconti dell'Ohio
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Serie
Opere di Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods /… (2012) 134 copie
Sherwood Anderson's Notebook Containing Articles Written During the Author's Life As a Story Teller, and… (1926) 7 copie
Hands [short story] 6 copie
A new testament 4 copie
Departure 3 copie
Godliness 3 copie
Paper Pills 3 copie
The Book of the Grotesque 3 copie
Vader is de beste — Autore — 3 copie
The Man Who Became a Woman 3 copie
The Strength of God 2 copie
The Teacher 2 copie
SHERWOOD ANDERSON PREMIUM COLLECTION 8 BOOKS (5 Novels 3 Short Story Collections) (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book… (2014) 2 copie
Racconti dell'Ohio 2 copie
Mother (Selected Short Stories) 2 copie
Death (Selected Short Stories) 2 copie
The Philosopher 2 copie
Unlighted Lamps 2 copie
Loneliness 2 copie
Seeds 2 copie
Nice Girl 2 copie
Mahavaikitud vale 2 copie
Novelle americane moderne 2 copie
Tandy (in Winesburg, Ohio) 2 copie
Solitudine (in Winesburg, Ohio) 2 copie
Anderson Sherwood 1 copia
Il meglio 5 1 copia
Μαῦρο γέλιο: Μυθιστόρημα 1 copia
Brothers 1 copia
Wines burg Ohio (Alma Classics) 1 copia
The Other Woman 1 copia
El triunfo del huevo : un libro de impresiones sobre la vida estadounidense en cuentos y poemas (2019) 1 copia
Ubogi belec 1 copia
Risa negra 1 copia
windy McPherson son 1 copia
WINESBURGO, OHIO. 1 copia
Winesburg in Ohio 1 copia
Sint un natarau 1 copia
Winesburg,Ohi (Illustrated) 1 copia
Drink 1 copia
An Awakening 1 copia
Thoughts 1 copia
The Man of Ideas 1 copia
The Thinker 1 copia
Queer 1 copia
Mørk latter 1 copia
Mani (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 copia
The Man's Story [short story] 1 copia
Der Erzähler erzählt sein Leben. Übertragen von Karl Lerbs. Deutsche EA. Fraktura, Lesebändchen… (1927) 1 copia
"Bizzarro" (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 copia
Sophistication {short story} 1 copia
Ebbrezza (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 copia
La morte (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 copia
Hands, Winesburg, Ohio 1 copia
Smrt v lese 1 copia
Partenza (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 copia
Kematian di Dalam Hutan 1 copia
A Meeting South 1 copia
The Contract 1 copia
Kćeri 1 copia
The Sad Horn Blowers 1 copia
Dignità (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 copia
Out of Nowhere into Nothing 1 copia
Madre (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 copia
Il filosofo (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 copia
Avventura (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 copia
צחוק אפל 1 copia
La maestra (in Winesburg, Ohio) 1 copia
Městečko v ohiu 1 copia
Opere correlate
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Collaboratore — 438 copie
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Collaboratore — 147 copie
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore — 132 copie
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Collaboratore — 103 copie
Cowboy Dances. A Collection of Western Square Dances. With a foreword by Sherwood Anderson. Appendix Cowboy Dance Tunes… (1939) — Prefazione — 30 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1921) — Collaboratore — 21 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1922) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1919) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Great American Short Stories: O. Henry Memorial Prize Winning Stories, 1919-1934 (1935) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1923 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1924) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Our lives : American labor stories — Collaboratore — 6 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (2017) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1927 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1927) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Wives and Lovers — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Modern Short Stories — Collaboratore — 3 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1929 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1929) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
America through the short story — Collaboratore — 1 copia
5 Book LOT: International Collectors Library. History of Tom Jones / Late George Apley / Winesburg, Ohio / Short… (1960) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1876-09-13
- Data di morte
- 1941-03-08
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Round Hill Cemetery, Marion, Virginia, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- VS
- Luogo di nascita
- Camden, Ohio, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Colón, Panama
- Causa della morte
- peritonitis occasioned by a swallowed toothpick
- Luogo di residenza
- Clyde, Ohio, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Elyria, Ohio, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Troutdale, Virginia, USA (mostra tutto 7)
Camden, Ohio, USA (birth) - Istruzione
- Wittenberg University
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
poet
essayist
copywriter
editor (mostra tutto 9)
salesman
lecturer
reporter - Organizzazioni
- United Factories Co. (president)
Anderson Manufacturing Co. (president)
United States Army - Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1937)
Dial Award (1921)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2012)
Utenti
Discussioni
WINESBURG, OHIO Group Read beginning in March in 75 Books Challenge for 2022 (Marzo 2022)
Recensioni
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Five star books (1)
Modernism (1)
1910s (1)
Out of Copyright (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Sense of place (1)
E's Reader (1)
Unread books (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 177
- Opere correlate
- 98
- Utenti
- 7,962
- Popolarità
- #3,048
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 143
- ISBN
- 544
- Lingue
- 17
- Preferito da
- 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… (altro)