- Social life and customs, City and town life in fiction, Cities and towns, City and town life in literature
A unified collection of short stories about life in a small town in the American Midwest.
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Earnest, prestige, contemplative and grave.
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Sherwood Anderson
- First published
- 1919
- Pages
- 247
- Publisher
- Signet Classics, Modern Library, Cape
- Editions
- 58
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780497901806
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“THE WRITER, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed.”
Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio on the 13th of September, 1876. He attended school only intermittently, while helping to support his family by working as a newsboy, housepainter, stock handler, and stable groom. At the age of 17 he moved to Chicago where he worked as a warehouse laborer and attended business classes at night. During the Spanish-American war Anderson fought in Cuba and returned after the war to Ohio, for a final year of schooling at Wittenberg College, Springfield. Anderson's two first novels were Windy McPherson’s Son (1916) and Marching Men (1917), both containing the psychological themes of inner lives of Midwestern villages, the pursuit of success and disillusi
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