Books by Sherwood Anderson

Marching Men (1917) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson's second novel is a coming of age story that explores the individual and collective identities shaping American life. Although he is known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist literature admired for its plainspoken language and psychological detail, Anderson's Marching Men is a powerful work of fiction that helped establish him as a leading realist writer of his generation. "In a country of so many varied climates and occupations as America it is absurd to talk of an American type. The country is like a vast disorganised undisciplined army, leaderless, uninspired, going in route-step along the road to they know not what end." At a young age, Norman McGregor, a misfit dreamer, knows this to be true of his country. Fourteen-year-old Norman, ironically named "Beaut" for his homely appearance, works alongside his mother at a bakery in the town of Coal Creek. When frustration over unpaid debts leads him to close the bakery, a group of disgruntled miners nearly destroys his family's only source of income. At the last second, a group of soldiers marches in to protect them, inspiring Norman with a sense of unity. As a young man, he leaves his hometown for Chicago, where he develops a relationship with a woman who introduces him to politics and labor organizing. Unable to shake the memory of the marching soldiers, he dedicates his life to collective empowerment. Marching Men is a story of the American Dream, for all of its difficult truths and convenient fictions. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood Anderson's Marching Men is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Nell'America dei ruggenti anni Venti, Bruce Dudley lascia all'improvviso la moglie e il lavoro di giornalista per iniziare un viaggio alla ricerca di un'identità più autentica, al di fuori delle castranti convenzioni sociali della città.Prendendo solo poche cose con sé, decide di discendere il Mississippi come un moderno Huckleberry Finn per poi raggiungere la quieta cittadina di Old Harbor, nella valle del fiume Ohio, dove da bambino aveva vissuto con la famiglia.Lì, Bruce è finalmente pronto a ritrovare la pace e la serenità tanto desiderate, ma l'incontro con una donna lo costringerà a mettere tutto in discussione ancora una volta.Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941) è stato un autore statunitense molto attivo nella scrittura di romanzi e raccolte di racconti brevi.Noto al pubblico soprattutto grazie alla raccolta di racconti "Winesburg, Ohio" (1919), che ebbe un'influenza profonda sulla letteratura e sulla narrativa americana, fu uno scrittore prolifico e apprezzato da molti suoi colleghi e coetanei, tra cui Hemingway e Scott Fitzgerald.Personalità irrequieta e tormentata, con un quadro familiare burrascoso, nel corso della propria vita viaggiò e si spostò molto, ed ebbe tre divorzi e quattro matrimoni.

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is a collection of interrelated short stories about small-town life in the American Midwest by author Sherwood Anderson. No doubt inspired by his own decision to leave Ohio for Chicago in order to launch his career as a professional writer, these stories relate a firsthand understanding of the concerns, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives of many Americans in the early-twentieth century.A young man struggles to express himself, and, consumed with paranoia and loneliness, turns to violence as his only outlet. An elderly mother recalls visions of her youth and memories of lost love as she faces death alone. A reserved woman inexplicably runs naked into the rainy streets of her town. Winesburg, Ohio is built on such stories as these, dissecting with painstaking detail the inner psychological torments of a small town's residents who remain, in the end, unmistakably human. Their longing and loneliness bring them together as much as they define what drives them apart, but ultimately it is silence and suffering which prevail. Throughout these stories, the life and development of George Willard is told in fragments, examining the extent to which we are formed in the image of others as well as the lengths to which one young man will go to avoid the fate he is born to. Winesburg, Ohio was an instant classic, a work which came not only to define Anderson's career, but to inspire generations of writers and readers to come.Winesburg, Ohio is recognized today as a pioneering work of Modernist fiction that precipitated a sea change in not only short story writing, but the entirety of American literature. Anderson's style is admired for its plainspoken language and psychological detail, and he was one of the first American authors to incorporate ideas from Freudian analysis within his work. Both darkly pessimistic and ultimately hopeful, Winesburg, Ohio endures because it captures the humanity of American life while offering to readers a sense of the promise of change.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Geography and Plays is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition .Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

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 crush out of himself in order that he function as a washing machine manufacturer. And so there was this Webster, drawing near to his fortieth year, and his daughter had just graduated from the town high school. It was early fall and he seemed to be going along and living his life about as usual and then this thing happened to him. Down within his body something began to affect him like an illness. It is a little hard to describe the feeling he had. It was as though something were being born. Had he been a woman he might have suspected he had suddenly become pregnant.

Dark Laughter, Sherwood Anderson's best selling novel, is influenced by Joyce's "Ulysses." It deals with the new sexual freedom of the 1920s and provides a unique fictional window into that era.

Praised by F. Scott Fitzgerald as Sherwood Anderson's finest work, this psychological novel recounts a middle-aged industrialist's rejection of his humdrum life and embrace of sex as a medium for self-realization.

Chosen by Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson before her death in 1985 to publish her husband's secret love letters, Anderson scholar Ray Lewis White has prepared a fascinating edition of these unique letters for the enjoyment of students and scholars of literature as well as for all readers who savour compelling and inspiring stories of loss and love.