...D ANDERSON OOD ANDERSON W W W W Winesbur inesbur inesbur inesbur inesburg, Ohio g, Ohio g, Ohio g, Ohio g, Ohio A P A P A P A P A Penn S enn S enn S e... ...es Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... Winesburg was partly modeled. Clyde looked, I suppose, not very different from most other American towns, and the few of its resi- dents I tried to e... ...im; it certainly should not surprise anyone who reads his book. Once freed from the army, I started to write li- ter-ary criticism, and in 1951 I publ... ...he old handicrafts towards our modern life of ma-chines.” There were still people in Clyde who re-membered the frontier, and like America itself, the ... ...er face to the wall and tries “to force herself to face the fact that many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.” Or especially in Winesb... ...at had been seeded for clover but that had pro- duced only a dense crop of yellow mustard weeds, he could see the public highway along which went a wa... ...OPHER DOCTOR PARCIVAL WAS a large man with a droop- ing mouth covered by a yellow mustache. He al- ways wore a dirty white waistcoat out of the pock- ... ...k. Thoughts rushed through my head. I thought of subterranean passages and springs. Down under the ground went my mind, delving about. I sat on the fl...

Excerpt: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.

...Contents Winesburg, Ohio ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION by Irving Howe .....................................

............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ...ew words in politics with those around him, till drop by drop the pleasant springs of his liberty creep into his mind and water his heart; and thus, e... ... sug- gestion of such a policy roused the population upon the banks of the Ohio, then inconsiderable, as one man. Their confidence in Washington scarc... ...ich bronze which is almost purple in its richness, and the glorious golden yellows must be seen to be under- stood. By me, at any rate, they cannot be... ...e been truly foreseen with a cunning eye, then a great and prosperous city springs up, ready made as it were, from the earth. Such a town is Milwaukee... ...e only shades known on the cheeks of children are those composed of brown, yellow, and white. All this comes of those damnable hot-air pipes with whic...

...HAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................

...owing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...eard of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in ... ...ed for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...y and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...and the nettle tree, the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the yellow violet, which might have withered else in dry seasons. In short, I... ...ut for the most part when I came out on to the railroad, on my way home, its yellow sand heap stretched away gleaming in the hazy atmosphere, and the ... ...d primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ... ...y tub, Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue In the cheap sunshine or by shady springs, With roots and pot herbs; where thy right hand, Tearing those hu... ...a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou. Even the biso...

...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a soj...