humanity surging…

Book review:

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)

Simon & Brown, 1919, 2012

208 pages

The reader of Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is tempted to think of Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology (1915), but the reader should resist the temptation.

There is very little of society in Spoon River, and so much of society in each of Anderson’s short stories. The humanity surges in these stories, and they touch so many memories of being with other people and making life happen.

At the end of each story—“Nobody knows,” “The untold lie,” and the list goes on—the reader wonders:

is there more?

is there more to know?

is there more truth?

It’s easy to put this book down, and it’s easier to pick it up again.

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Book review: The Proud Tower

…a lot more than a history book…

by Barbara Tuchman

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