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Winesburg, Ohio : A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life

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Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life short story cycle structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man. Each of the stories shares a specific character's past and present struggle to overcome the loneliness and isolation that seem to permeate the town.

Table of Contents:

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

Godliness I: concerning Jesse Bentley

Godliness II: also concerning Jesse Bentley

Godliness III: Surrender, concerning Louise Bentley

Godliness 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


Format:

  • E-book

Duration:

  • • 138 pages

Language:

English