Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

 

TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER,

EMMA SMITH ANDERSON,

whose keen observations on the life about her first awoke in me the hunger to see beneath the surface of lives, this book is dedicated.

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 Trunnion

GODLINESS, a Tale in Four Parts

PART I -- concerning Jesse Bentley

PART II -- also concerning Jesse Bentley

PART III: Surrender -- concerning Louise Bentley

PART IV: Terror -- concerning David Hardy

A MAN OF IDEAS -- concerning Joe Welling

ADVENTURE -- concerning Alice Hindman

RESPECTABILITY -- concerning Wash Williams

THE THINKER -- concerning Seth Richmond

TANDY -- concerning Tandy Hard

THE STRENGTH OF GOD -- concerning the Reverend Curtis Hartman

THE TEACHER -- concerning Kate Swift

LONELINESS -- concerning Enoch Robinson

AN AWAKENING -- concerning Belle Carpenter

"QUEER" -- concerning Elmer Cowley

THE UNTOLD LIE -- concerning Ray Pearson

DRINK -- concerning Tom Foster

DEATH -- concerning Doctor Reefy and Elizabeth Willard

SOPHISTICATION -- concerning Helen White

DEPARTURE -- concerning George Willard

 

Winesburg, Ohio

The Book of the Grotesque