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UNINA9910787152403321 |
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Autore |
Anderson Sherwood |
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Titolo |
Winesburg, Ohio / / Sherwood Anderson |
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New York : , : Open Road Integrated Media, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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City and town life |
Ohio Social life and customs Fiction |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Introduction; The Tales and the Persons; The Book of the Grotesque; Hands; Paper Pills; Mother; The Philosopher; Nobody Knows; Godliness (Parts I and II); Surrender (Part III); Terror (Part IV); A Man of Ideas; Adventure; Respectability; The Thinker; Tandy; The Strength of God; The Teacher; Loneliness; An Awakening; Queer; The Untold Lie; Drink; Death; Sophistication; Departure; Copyright Page |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The classic story collection by a great American masterSherwood Anderson's unforgettable story cycle has long been considered one of the finest works of American literature. The central character is George Willard, a youngartist coming of age in a quiet town in the heart of the Midwest, but his story is no more extraordinary than those of friends and neighbors such as Kate Swift, a lonely schoolteacher whose beauty inspires lust and confusion; Wing Biddlebaum, a recluse whose restless hands are the source of both his new name and the terrible secret that led him to abandon the old one; and Doc |
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