![]() ![]() Through Anderson's art, their stories are woven into a powerful portrayal of community life, and, ironically, of the isolation its close atmosphere can engender. Charles Hartman and the enigmatic Wing Biddlebaum among them. ![]() Before George leaves the community, we have learned much about his mother Elizabeth, his friend Helen White, his teacher Kate Swift and other Winesburg residents - the lonely, sensitive Dr. Through the eyes of young George Willard, the inner lives of many of Winesburg's inhabitants open to us. Winesburg, Ohio subtly portrays as well a young writer's coming of age, searching for love, yearning for a less stifling world. ![]() In this moving collection of interrelated stories, Ohio-born Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) illuminates the loneliness and frustration - spiritual, emotional and artistic - of life in a small American town. ![]()
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