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About Winesburg, Ohio, Anderson wrote to a Methodist minister who had labeled the book a "burlesque:"
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The book is, of course, in no sense a burlesque, but it is an effort to treat the lives of simple, ordinary people in an American middle western town with sympathy and understanding.... Certainly, I did not write to make fun of these people or to make them ridiculous or ugly... [they are] people I personally would be glad to spend my life with.
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Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small midwestern 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.
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Chapter Titles
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The Book of the Grotesque
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Hands
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Paper Pills
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Mother
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The Philosopher
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Nobody Knows
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Godliness (Parts I-IV)
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Surrender
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Terror
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A Man of Ideas
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Adventure
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Respectability
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The Thinker
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Tandy
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The Strength of God
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The Teacher
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Loneliness
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An Awakening
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Queer
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The Untold Lie
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Drink
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Death
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Sophistication
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Departure
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