Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio[edit]
To the memory of my mother,
EMMA SMITH ANDERSON,
whose keen observations on the life about her first awoke in me the hunger to see beneath the surface of lives, this book is dedicated.
Contents[edit]
The Tales and the Persons
- 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
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