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Winesburg, Ohio
Narrators: Bruce Blau, David Thorn, Jim Johanson, Kevin Kennedy, Melissa Leventon, Estelle Piper Kennedy, Rob Rubin, Susan McCarthy, Linda Montgomery, Al Bedrosian, Lou Spiegel, Bobbie Frohman, Larry Smith.
Written by Sherwood Anderson

In this moving collection of interrelated stories, Sherwood Anderson illuminates life in a small American town as well as portraying a young writer's coming of age, searching for love, and yearning for a wider world.

Through the eyes of young George Willard, the inner lives of many of Winesburg's inhabitants open to us. Their stories are woven into a powerful portrayal of community life, and, ironically, of the isolation its atmosphere can engender. It endures as a classic portrait of American life.

Winesburg, Ohio is a series of interconnecting short stories published in 1919. It is considered to be one of the earliest works of modernist literature and among the best English-language novels of the 20th century.

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