Book cover for The Egg and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson

The Egg and Other Stories

Sherwood Anderson
2013 Released
128 Pages
4-5 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
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Dover PublicationsISBN 9780486157139

Published two years after the innovative, influential 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, this collection 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 influenced by Anderson’s technique), these stories explore intriguing psychological depths, redolent with personal epiphanies, erotic undercurrents, and sudden eruptions of passion among seemingly repressed, inarticulate Midwesterners.

Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio. Following a brief stint in the Spanish American War, he started a family and founded a business -- both of which he abruptly abandoned at the age of 36 to pursue his life-long dream of writing. His simple and direct writing style, with which he portrayed important moments in the lives of his characters, influenced both Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. His other notable works include Triumph of the Egg; Horses and Men; and A Story Teller's Story.

More by Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio
Dark Laughter
Poor White
The Triumph of the Egg
Geography and Plays
Many Marriages
Windy McPherson's Son
Sherwood Anderson's Notebook
Hello Towns!
Tar
Mid-American Chants
Horses and Men

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