American Literature / Unit 15 AML 1429 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sherwood Anderson and *Winesburg, Ohio*
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The idea
Anderson's book of nineteen nineteen is a sequence of linked stories about the isolated people of one small Ohio town, connected by a young reporter who leaves at the end. It influenced Hemingway and Faulkner directly, and the witness places it beside Garland's Main-Travelled Roads.
In practice
One town, told one person at a time.
Where people slip
The book is neither a novel nor a collection.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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