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El joven George Willard, reportero del periódico local, observa la vida de los habitantes de su pequeño pueblo, Winesburg, en Ohio. La mirada del narrador construye, a partir de lo cotidiano y gris, un fascinante retrato humano, pulcro y detallado, de enorme realismo poético y finísima...

F. Scott Fitzgerald definió Muchos matrimonios una de las mejores novelas de Sherwood Anderson. El libro abraza la tesis del fracaso de la monogamia, es decir de la institución del matrimonio. Por esta razón fue vetado en muchas librerías de Estados Unidos y de Inglaterra y creó no pocos...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Step into the evocative, beautifully blurred world of memory and imagination with A Story Teller's Story by Sherwood Anderson. In this deeply reflective and poetic audiobook, Anderson explores the eternal struggle between stark reality and the sweet...

Winesburg, Ohio is a landmark work of American literature and one of the most influential story cycles of the twentieth century. Set in a small Midwestern town, the book follows a series of lonely, frustrated, and emotionally complex characters whose private desires, disappointments, fears, and memories shape their hidden lives. At the center of the collection is George Willard, a young newspaper reporter who listens, observes, and gradually comes to understand the inner struggles of the people around him.

A wonderful collection of short stories" by some of the all-time great American writers: 1. "The Diamond Lens" by Fitz James O’Brien; 2. "Titbottom’s Spectacles" by George William Curtis; 3. "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe; 4. "The Eyes of the Panther" by Ambrose Bierce; 5. "The Lightning Rod Man" by Hermann Melville; 6. "Seeds" by Sherwood Anderson; 7. "Who Was She?" by Bayard Taylor; 8. "The Man who stole a Meeting House" by John Townsend Trowbridge; 9. "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" by O. Henry

Einsamkeit, Armut & ein verborgenes Leben – Sherwood Andersons eindringliche Kurzgeschichte über das Schicksal einer einfachen Frau, atmosphärisch gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Mit „Tod in den Wäldern" zeigt Sherwood Anderson seine große Meisterschaft in der Darstellung stiller menschlicher Tragödien. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine unscheinbare Frau, deren Leben von harter Arbeit, Entbehrung und sozialer Isolation geprägt ist. Anderson erzählt mit ruhiger Intensität von Einsamkeit, gesellschaftlicher Härte und der oft übersehenen Würde einfacher Menschen.

“These notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn’t their object. They are merely notes of impressions, a record of vagrant thoughts, hopes, ideas that have floated through the mind of one present-day American…It is my aim to be true to the essence of things. That’s what...

In questo scrittore, definito anche padre della letteratura americana, troviamo quella scrittura di inizi novecento che si apre al flusso di pensieri, alla punteggiatura usata in modo anticonvenzionale, e che si collega alle scritture di Joyce, Wolfe, Stein, e di cui poi troveremo i frutti in Hemingway, Faulkner, e in Pavese, che ha tradotto questo romanzo. Uno spaccato della provincia Americana del 1926, dipinto da un impressionista della scrittura che fa aperti riferimenti alla pittura di Cezanne e Matisse.

I alle Sherwood Andersons bøger er hovedtemaet de menneskelige drifter og det civiliserede menneskes laengsel efter at genfinde en sand forståelse med naturen. I denne roman skildrer Anderson sin opfattelse af de sortes kontakt til det naturlige, uhaemmede liv, som står i staerk kontrast til, hvad han betragter som sine hvide "artsfaellers" degeneration.

Sherwood Anderson beskrev selv "Winesburg, Ohio" som "halvt selvstaendige fortaellinger, halvt roman". I dag er den kendt som et af de mest banebrydende vaerker i moderne amerikansk litteratur, og den har haft en enorm indflydelse på den amerikanske novelle. Bogen udspiller sig i den førindustrielle amerikanske lille by Winesburg, og omkring den centrale hovedperson, Winesburgs eneste journalist, den unge George Willard.

A captivating anthology of some of the more unusual short stories written by well-known classic writers. 1. "A Witch in the Peak" by R. Murray Gilchrist. 2. "War" by Sherwood Anderson. 3. "Self-Help" by W. W. Jacobs. 4. "The Wolf" by Guy de Maupassant. 5. "Makes the Whole World Kin" by O. Henry. 6. "The Stone Dragon" by R. Murray Gilchrist. 7. "The New Englander" by Sherwood Anderson. 8. "Berenice" by Edgar Allan Poe. 9. "The Man with the Watches" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 10. "The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace" by G. F. Forest.

Ten classic short stories from the quills of great bird-loving authors.

A haunting collection of unforgettable tales by great classic authors.

A highly unsettling collection of macabre stories in which death and the dead are key themes. Moon’s Gibbet by Egerton Castle, A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby, The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy, The Pistol Shot by Alexander Pushkin, The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe, The Dead Hand by Wilkie Collins, The Famous Race between the Hearse and the Steamroller by Sidney Keyes, The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, Nine O’Clock by Wilkie Collins, The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin.

A poignant and profound collection of stories which explore the theme of childhood and a child's perspective on the world. "The Dabblers" by W. F. Harvey. "The Doll’s House" by Katherine Mansfield. "The Roman Road" by Kenneth Grahame. "The Sailor Uncle" by Mary Lamb. "The Egg" by Sherwood Anderson. "Gabriel-Ernest" by Saki. "A Child’s Revenge" by Paul Bourget. "The Apple Tree" by Katherine Mansfield. "A Falling Out" by Kenneth Grahame. "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hugh McVey is an inventor who moves from Missouri to Bidwell, Ohio. He creates a mechanical cabbage planter to ease the workload of farmers, but an investor exploits his product. His next invention, a corn cutter, makes him a fortune and transforms the small town in Ohio into a center of...

The Triumph of the Egg is a fictional panorama of a great region of our country, unfolded by a writer who—to quote the New York Times—“depicts life in the Midwest as Dostoevsky pictured the many colored life of Russia, with almost as wonderful a touch of genius, with a more concentrated...

Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of stories set in a fictitious town in the 1890s, has long been considered Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece. This groundbreaking work set the stage for a new era in writing, greatly influencing Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck, among many others...

Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century. In the perfectly imagined world of Winesburg, an archetypal small American town, Anderson reveals the hidden passions that turn ordinary lives into fonts of unforgettable emotions. Played out against a deceptively placid backdrop, Anderson's loosely connected stories coalesce, like chapters, into a powerful novel of love and loss.

This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories, Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's...