![]() ![]() ![]() Winesburg, Ohio presents a galaxy of strange and distorted characters in a small town in Sandusky County, not far from Cleveland, well over one hundred years ago. Sherwood Anderson, Author of Winesburg, Ohio Certainly, I did not write to make fun of these people or to make them ridiculous or ugly, but instead to show by their example what happens to simple, ordinary people-particularly the unsuccessful ones-what life does to us here in America in our times-and on the whole how decent and real we nevertheless are." "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…. ![]()
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