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This is a collection of 15 short stories that were written by Sherwood Anderson and published in 1921. This was Anderson's first short story collection after the extremely successful Winesburg, Ohio.Sherwood Anderson was a prominent American author. Anderson was self-educated... Read Full Overview

Published two years after the innovative, influential 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, this col-lection of short stories solidified the author's reputation as a major American writer. Despite their narrative simplicity (similar in style to the work of Hemingway, who was highly... Read Full Overview

There is a story.-I cannot tell it.-I have no words. The story is almost forgotten but sometimes I remember.

Published two years after the 1919 masterpiece "Winesburg, Ohio," this collection of short stories explores intriguing psychological depths, redolent with personal epiphanies, erotic undercurrents, and bursts of passion among seemingly repressed, inarticulate Midwesterners.

Book Excerpt: ...arter he'll just eat up everything and get there.Sunstreak is different. He is a stallion and nervous and belongs on the biggest farm we've got in our country, the Van Riddle place that belongs to Mr. Van Riddle of New York. Sunstreak is like a girl you think... Read Full Overview

There is a story.-I cannot tell it.-I have no words. The story is almost forgotten but sometimes I remember. The story concerns three men in a house in a street. If I could say the words I would sing the story. I would whisper it into the ears of women, of mothers. I would run... Read Full Overview

At Saratoga we laid up nights in the hay in the shed Bildad had showed us and ate with the niggers early and at night when the race people had all gone away. The men from home stayed mostly in the grandstand and betting field, and didn't come out around the places where the horses... Read Full Overview

At Saratoga we laid up nights in the hay in the shed Bildad had showed us and ate with the niggers early and at night when the race people had all gone away. The men from home stayed mostly in the grandstand and betting field, and didn't come out around the places where the horses... Read Full Overview

At Saratoga we laid up nights in the hay in the shed Bildad had showed us and ate with the niggers early and at night when the race people had all gone away. The men from home stayed mostly in the grandstand and betting field, and didn't come out around the places where the horses... Read Full Overview

This coveted collection of short stories by Sherwood Anderson (including the "Unlighted Lamp" and "Out of Nothing to Nowhere," contains some of the author's most celebrated works. Between the two great wars of the twentieth century, Sherwood Anderson vastly influenced and shaped... Read Full Overview