Winesburg，Ohio舍伍德·安德森的《小镇畸人》
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作者： Sherwood Anderson著
出 版 社： 进E
出版时间： 1995-5-1字数：版次： 1页数： 232印刷时间：开本： 32开印次： 1纸张：I S B N ： 9780553214390包装： 平装内容简介
Library Journal praised this edition of Sherwood Anderson's famed short stories as "the finest edition of this seminal work available." Reconstructed to be as close to the original text as possible, Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In "Hands," Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In "Adventure," lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Hidden passions inform and shape the lives of the residents of a placid, archetypal ,small American, town, in a series of stories that has become a classic of American literature. Reissue.
From the Inside Flap
Before Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fiction--evoking with lyrical simplicity quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women. In a bed, elevated so that he can peer out the window, an old writer contemplates the fluttering of his heart and considers, as if viewing a pageant, the inhabitants of a small midwestern town. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virginity, wealth and poverty, thrift and profligacy, carelessness and abandon. "Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America," wrote H. L. Mencken. "It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own."
作者简介：
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) spent most of his boyhood in Clyde, Ohio, the model for Winesburg, Ohio. And like the central figure of that work, Anderson left small-town life behind after his mother’s death, when he was nineteen. After serving in the Spanish-American War, the mostly self-taught Anderson became successful advertising copywriter in Chicago. Then in 1912, torn between his responsibilities and his drive to create, he had a breakdown that has become legendary. Having become the owner of a small factory, Anderson abruptly walked from his office and wandered about for four days in a trancelike state before ending up in an Ohio hospital. Realizing he must devote his life to writing, he finally broke with his wife and family and joined Carl Sandburg and Theodore Dreiser, who were at the core of Chicago’s literary group. By 1925, Anderson had demonstrated such talent that H.L. Mencken called him “America’s most distinguished novelist.” A mentor of William Faulkner and Thomas Wolfe, Anderson was known for his colloquial style and his exploration of gender and sexuality in relationships. His works of fiction include Windy McPherson’s Son (1916); Poor White (1920); The Triumph of the Egg (1921), a short-story collection; and Dark Laughter (1925). Also important are his autobiographical works: A Story Teller’s Story (1924), Tar: A Midwest Childhood (1926), and Sherwood Anderson’s Memoirs (1942). He died of peritonitis on a trip abroad when a broken toothpick perforated his intestines.
目录
Introduction by JeffreyMeyers
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--conceming Doctor Parcival
NOBODY KNows--concerning Louise Trunnion
GODLINESS，a Tale in Four Parts
Ⅰ--concerning Jesse Bentley
Ⅱ—also concerning Jesse Bentley
Ⅲ Surrender--concerning Louise Bentley
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
