title: Winesburg, Ohio: Text and Criticism (Critical Library, Viking)
author:  Sherwood Anderson 
description: "When he calls himself a 'poor scribbler' don't believe him. He is not a poor scribbler . . . he is a very great writer."--Ernest Hemingway<br /><br />"Winesburg, Ohio, when it first appeared, kept me up a whole night in a steady crescendo of emotion."--Hart Crane<br /><br />"As a rule, first books show more bravado than anything else, unless it be tediousness. But there is neither of these qualities in Winesburg, Ohio. . . . These people live and breathe: they are beautiful."--E. M. Forster<br /><br />"Winesburg, Ohio is an extraordinarily good book. But it is not fiction. It is poetry."--Rebecca West
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  Title: Winesburg, Ohio
  
  
  
  
  
  Author: Sherwood Anderson
  
  
  
  
  
  Release Date: May 14, 2005 [EBook #416]
  
  
  [Last updated: February 20, 2012]
  
  
  
  
  
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  # SHERWOOD ANDERSON
  
  
  
  
  
  Winesburg, Ohio
  
  
  
  
  
  # CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  INTRODUCTION by Irving Howe
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### THE TALES AND THE PERSONS
  
  
  
  
  
  #### THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE
  
  
  
  
  
  HANDS, concerning Wing Biddlebaum
  
  
  
  
  
  PAPER PILLS, concerning Doctor Reefy
  
  
  
  
  
  MOTHER, concerning Elizabeth Willard
  
  
  
  
  
  THE PHILOSOPHER, concerning Doctor Parcival
  
  
  
  
  
  NOBODY KNOWS, concerning Louise Trun