Sherwood Anderson: 54 books

George Willard, de verslaggever van het plaatselijke dorpskrantje, is het verbindende hoofdpersonage in de moderne klassieker Winesburg, Ohio. Willards jeugdige onbekommerdheid contrasteert sterk met de teleurstellingen en niet ingeloste verwachtingen van een aantal van de dorpelingen. Het boek ontvouwt...

An American novelist and short story writer. His most enduring work is the short story sequence Winesburg, Ohio. Writers he has influenced include Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Thomas Wolfe. He is most famous for the collection of interrelated short stories, which...

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...

The story of the coming age of industry -- factories that turn out labor-saving devices -- and the effect on working people; the story of those who are moneymakers and organizers; the story of young people who don't know how to love -- this book covers all of that and more.

Hugh McVey moves from Missouri to the agrarian town of Bidwell, Ohio. He invents a mechanical cabbage planter to ease the burden of famers, but an investor in town exploits his product, which fails to succeed. His next invention, a corn cutter, makes him a millionaire and transforms Bidwell into a...

There was a man named Webster who lived in a town of twenty-five thousand people in the state of Wisconsin. He had a wife named Mary and a daughter named Jane and he was himself a fairly prosperous manufacturer of washing machines. He was a rather quiet man inclined to have dreams which he tried to...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Hugh McVey was born in a little hole of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. It was a miserable place in which to be born. With the exception...

Hugh McVey was born in a little hole of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. It was a miserable place in which to be born. With the exception of a narrow strip of black mud along the river, the land for ten miles back from the town – called...

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Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. McPherson starts out as an ambitious newsboy in Caxton, Ohio, with drunkard of a father who constantly embarrasses him. Eventually, after his mother's death and...

WINESBURG, OHIO erstmals erschienen 1919, ist ein romanartiger Reigen aus Erzählungen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Bewohner einer fiktiven Kleinstadt im Mittleren Westen, beobachtet von George Willard, einem jungen Mann, der dort aufwächst und als Reporter des Winesburg Eagle noch den kleinsten Geschehnissen...