Sherwood Anderson Books In Order

Novels

  1. Windy McPherson’s Son (1916)
  2. Marching Men (1917)
  3. Poor White (1920)
  4. Many Marriages (1923)
  5. Dark Laughter (1926)
  6. Alice and the Lost Novel (1929)
  7. Hello Towns! (1929)
  8. Nearer the Grass Roots (1929)
  9. Beyond Desire (1932)
  10. Home Town (1940)
  11. No Swank (1970)
  12. Perhaps Women (1970)
  13. The Teller’s Tales (1983)

Collections

  1. Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
  2. The Egg and Other Stories (1921)
  3. Triumph of the Egg (1921)
  4. Horses and Men (1923)
  5. Death in the Woods (1933)
  6. Plays: Winesburg and Others (1937)
  7. Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories (1962)
  8. The Portable Sherwood Anderson (1972)
  9. Early Writings (1989)
  10. Certain Things Last (1995)
  11. Selected Stories (2020)

Non fiction

  1. A Story Teller’s Story (1924)
  2. Sherwood Anderson’s Notebook (1926)
  3. Tar (1926)
  4. Puzzled America (1935)
  5. Kit Brandon (1936)
  6. Letters of Sherwood Anderson (1953)
  7. Return to Winesburg (1968)
  8. Memoirs (1969)
  9. The Buck Fever Papers (1971)
  10. Sherwood Anderson / Gertrude Stein (1972)
  11. Writer at His Craft (1978)
  12. Paul Rosenfeld (1978)
  13. Letters to Bab (1985)
  14. Diaries, 1936-41 (1987)
  15. Love Letters to Eleanor Copenhauer Anderson (1989)
  16. Sherwood Anderson’s Secret Love Letters (1991)
  17. Southern Odyssey (1997)

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Sherwood Anderson Books Overview

Windy McPherson’s Son

Sherwood Anderson was a 20th century American writer of short stories. Anderson grew up in Ohio and after college became a copywriter in Chicago. He is most famous for his collection of interrelated short stories, Winesburg Ohio, which he began writing in 1919. Windy McPherson’s Son was Anderson’s first novel written in 1914. The story is a social commentary like many of Anderson’s books. A young boy grows up in rural Iowa. ‘At the beginning of the long twilight of a summer evening, Sam McPherson, a tall big boned boy of thirteen, with brown hair, black eyes, and an amusing little habit of tilting his chin in the air as he walked, came upon the station platform of the little corn shipping town of Caxton in Iowa. It was a board platform, and the boy walked cautiously, lifting his bare feet and putting them down with extreme deliberateness on the hot, dry, cracked planks. Under one arm he carried a bundle of newspapers. A long black cigar was in his hand.’

Marching Men

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV In a cellar-like house driven like a stake into the hillside above Coal Creek lived Kate Hartnet with her son Mike. Her man had died with the others during the fire in the mine. Her son like Beaut McGregor did not work in the mine. He hurried through Main Street or went half running among the trees on the hills. Miners seeing him hurrying along with white intense face shook their heads. ‘He’s cracked,’ they said. ‘He’ll hurt some one yet.’ Beaut saw Mike hurrying about the streets. Once encountering him in the pine woods above the town he walked with him and tried to get him to talk. In his pockets Mike carried books and pamphlets. He set traps in the woods and brought home rabbits and squirrels. He got together collections of birds’ eggs which he sold to women in the trains that stopped at Coal Creek and when he caught birds he stuffed them, put beads in their eyesockets and sold them also. He proclaimed himself an anarchist and like Cracked McGregor muttered to himself as he hurried along. One day Beaut came upon Mike Hartnet reading a book as he sat on a log overlooking the town. A shock ran through McGregor when he looked over the shoulder of the man and saw what book he read. ‘It is strange,’ he thought, ‘that this fellow should stick to the same book that fat old Weeks makes his living by.’ Beaut sat on the log beside Hartnet and watched him. The reading man looked up and nodded nervously then slid along the log to the farther end. Beaut laughed. He looked down at the town and then at the frightened nervous book-reading man on the log. An inspiration came to him. ‘If you had the power, Mike, what would you do to Coal Creek?’ he asked. The nervous man jumped and tears came into his eyes. He stood before the log and spread out his hands. ‘I would g…

Poor White

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG 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 in derision by river men ‘Mudcat Landing’ was almost entirely worthless and unproductive. The soil, yellow, shallow and stony, was tilled, in Hugh’s time, by a race of long gaunt men who seemed as exhausted and no account as the land on which they lived. They were chronically dis couraged, and the merchants and artisans of the town were in the same state. The merchants, who ran their stores poor tumble down ramshackle affairs on the credit system, could not get pay for the goods they handed out over their counters and the artisans, the shoemakers, carpenters and harnessmakers, could not get pay for the work they did. Only the town’s two saloons prospered. The saloon keepers sold their wares for cash and, as the men of the town and the farmers who drove into town felt that without drink life was unbearable, cash always could be found for the purpose of getting drunk.

Many Marriages

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts – the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Dark Laughter

This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library. HP’s patented BookPrep technology was used to clean artifacts resulting from use and digitization, improving your reading experience.

Winesburg, Ohio

Winesburg, Ohio is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The work explores the theme of loneliness and frustration in small town America. Anderson’s writing often seems disjointed and tentative, a style that lends itself to the half conscious thoughts and raw emotions of Winesburg’s residents and their inability to express their deepest hopes and fears. The townspeople are grotesques, stunted morally, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually, and they are inarticulate. They seem to gravitate toward George, telling him their strange, often sad, stories in the hope that, in writing the stories of their lives, he will be able to impart dignity and meaning to their personal struggles and experiences. The chapter ‘Paper Pills’ recounts how the misshapen apples the grotesques of the orchard are ignored, left on the tree, where they slowly ripen until they fall. Those that bother to taste these discarded grotesques discover they are the sweetest of apples.’ Quote from wikipedia. orgAbout the Author ‘Sherwood Anderson September 13, 1876 March 8, 1941 was an American writer, mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. His influence on American fiction was profound; citation needed his literary voice can be heard in Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, and others. He was born in Camden, Ohio, the third of Erwin M. and Emma S. Anderson’s seven children. After his father’s business failed, they were forced to move frequently, finally settling down at Clyde, Ohio, in 1884. Family difficulties led his father to begin drinking heavily. His father died in 1895. Partly as a result of these misfortunes, Anderson eagerly worked odd jobs to help his family. It earned him the nickname ‘Jobby.’ He left school at 14.’ Quote from wikipedia. org

The Egg and Other Stories

Published two years after the innovative, influential 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, this collection of short stories solidified the author’s reputation as a major American writer. Despite their narrative simplicity similar in style to the work of Hemingway, who was highly influenced by Anderson s technique, these stories explore intriguing psychological depths, redolent with personal epiphanies, erotic undercurrents, and sudden eruptions of passion among seemingly repressed, inarticulate Midwesterners.

Triumph of the Egg

1921. Anderson, whose prose style, derived from everyday speech, influenced American short story writing between World Wars I and II. He directed the American short story away from the neatly plotted tales of O. Henry and his imitators. The stories in The Triumph of the Egg are characterized by a casual development, complexity of motivation, and an interest in psychological process. Anderson also made his name as a leading naturalistic writer with his masterwork, Winesburg, Ohio, a picture of life in a typical small Midwestern town, as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants. Contents: The Dumb Man; I Want to Know Why; Seeds; The Other Woman; The Egg; Unlighted Lamps; Senility; The Man in the Brown Coat; Brothers; The Door of the Trap; The New Englander; War; Motherhood; Out of Nowhere into Nothing; and The Man with the Trumpet.

Death in the Woods

Death in the Woods is a signal junction in Anderson’s career and is to my mind one of the finest stories in our language.’ Jim HarrisonStill fresh and strikingly contemporary, the stark realism of these stories carefully explores the dreams and emotions of Sherwood Anderson’s unforgettable characters. In Death in the Woods, we travel deep into the heart of America as Anderson saw it, to find an introspective man, in a desolate landscape, questioning the very meaning of his world.

Certain Things Last

An anthology of thirty stories from previously unpublished manuscripts and earlier collections features the uniquely American vision of loneliness by the author who elevated short fiction from the conventionality of popular magazines and shaped it into individual expression. IP.

A Story Teller’s Story

A memoir of Midwestern life and culture from the author of Winesburg, Ohio

Praise for A Story Teller’s Story

‘The American Portrait of the Artist.’
Charles Baxter

‘Probably unequaled…
for the austerity of moral courage and sincerity of
conviction…
. A book which should be read by every intelligent American.’
New York Times

‘In the field of literary autobiography, it stands practically alone in America.’
The Nation

‘The voice of the soliloquist…
amplifies the drama of A Story Teller’s Story, as does the persistent theme of escape, from an America of fact and factories, marketing and manufacturing, to the borderless Ohios of imagination and creation.’
From the introduction by Thomas Lynch

Southern Odyssey

Southern Odyssey contains the best of Sherwood Anderson’s writings about the region where he spent the last sixteen years of his life. In more than forty selections of journalism and fiction, Anderson explores the people and problems of the South. The pieces collected here present Anderson’s perceptive vision of the South, combining his love for the region with the fresh observations of an outsider. His work reflects a range of issues that engaged all southerners at a crucial time in their history the Great Depression, the influence of the New Deal, the painful transition from agriculture to mechanization, the struggle of labor to unionize, and the elemental divisions of race always with an eye toward the human side of things. Anderson’s impressions and convictions concerning his southern experience encompassed more than its troubles, however. He also wrote of the splendor of a Shenandoah spring and the strength of character of the native people. Southern Odyssey is more than a personal record it is a gallery of southern portraits, drawn in the style that distinguishes Anderson’s prose at its best.

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