Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (Penguin Classics) prayerbook often alluding to other creatures

often alluding to other creatures from jellyfish to elephants for useful comparisons and contrasts

originally published in 1934

Chapter 2: Get Your Gear

When the geese begin to fly south

but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce's life and mature work

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (Penguin Classics) prayerbook often alluding to other creatures"Winesburg, Ohio" (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the centre is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town's 'grotesques' solitary figures unable to communicate with others. George is their conduit for expression and solace from loneliness, but he has his own longings which eventually draw him away from home to