Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the center is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town's solitary figures. Anderson's stories influenced countless American writers including Hemingway, Faulkner, Updike, Oates and Carver. This new edition corrects errors made in earlier editions and takes into account major criticism and textual scholarship of the last several decades....

A collection of short stories dealing with a small town in Ohio....

Inspired by Anderson's Midwestern boyhood and his adulthood in early 20th-century Chicago, this volume gave birth to the American story cycle, for which Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and later writers were forever indebted. Defying the prudish sensibilities of his time, Anderson embraced frankness and truth. Here we meet all those whose portraits brought the American short story into the modern age....

Hidden passions inform and shape the lives of the residents of a placid, archetypal ,small American, town, in a series of stories that has become a classic of American literature. Reissue....

Before Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fiction--evoking with lyrical simplicity quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women. In a bed, elevated so that he can peer out the window, an old writer contemplates the fluttering of his heart and considers, as if viewing a pageant, the inhabitants of a small midwestern town. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virginity, wealth and poverty, thrift and profligacy, carelessness and abandon. "Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America," wrote H. L. Mencken. "It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own."

With Commentary by Sherwood Anderson, Rebecca West, and Hart Crane...

The solitude of women is one of the great subjects of universal Literature. All women either with impossible or tragically lost loves face solitude at some time in their lives. This anthology presents unforgettable stories that portray a psychological state and a peculiar way of life to which women end up getting used to. This anthology contains stories by Flaubert, OConnor, Chejov, Cheever, Maupassant, Clarice Lispector, Oscar Wilde and Carlos Fuentes among others.

Description in Spanish: Asi reza la carta que, escrita con la propia sangre de su hijo Harald, recibe en Alemania Amelia Gotlieb, dias despues de que la policia islandesa encontrara el cadaver del muchacho en la Facultad de Historia de Reykjavik: un cadaver al que, ademas, le han sacado los ojos y lleva marcados en su cuerpo extranos signos que dejan a los forenses entre el estupor y el espanto. Descontentos con el trabajo de la policia, y deseosos de que la verdad se descubra de la forma mas discreta posible, los padres del difunto contratan entonces los servicios de Dora, una letrada islandesa a la que ayudara Matthew, el abogado aleman que envia la familia. Dora y Matthew inician una investigacion que les llevara desde la moderna Reykjavik al extremo noroeste de la isla, una zona inhospita y salvaje donde, como en tantos otros lugares de Europa, se llevaron a cabo ejecuciones de decenas de personas acusadas de brujeria. A los dos abogados no les quedara otro remedio que sumergirse en los restos y documentos de aquel nefasto episodio de la historia de Islandia para encontrar la clave de un asesinato que parece haber sido inspirado en ancestrales rituales....