“Sherwood Anderson's
Winesburg, Ohio
changed modern American storytelling, kindling innovations by Faulkner, Hemingway, and, through them, fictioneers around the world. With scholarly rigor and critical imagination, Marc Dudley gives a new generation of students, teachers, and general readers a superbly conceived edition of this breakthrough work.” —Stephen Cushman, University of Virginia
“This edition of
contextualizes Anderson as a key figure of American literary modernism and offers a selection of secondary criticism that includes Anderson in conversations about race, gender, and disability. More than a century after its publication,
still resonates with readers who find in its pages what it means to be alone together.” —Verna Kale, The Pennsylvania State University
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
The 1919 first book edition of the stories, with Harald Toksvig’s original map of the fictional Winesburg.
A thoughtful and thought-provoking preface and expanded explanatory footnotes by Marc K. Dudley.
Selections from Anderson’s memoirs, two of them new to the Second Edition.
Eight contemporary reviews of Winesburg, Ohio by critics including William Faulkner and H. L. Mencken.
Nine interpretive essays, five of them new to the Second Edition.
A chronology and an updated selected bibliography.