Winesburg, Ohio

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of short stories, most written between 1915 and 1916, with a few others written closer to publication in 1919 is an exacting look at and dissection of life in a fictional small town in Ohio. Each story presents George Willard, a protagonist who grows in age and wisdom throughout the short story cycle. Not unlike the feelings attendant to the waves of modernism percolating in Paris and filtering back to the states, the themes invariably deal with Willard’s isolation, inability to communicate, alienation from present surroundings and the need and desire to break the bonds of small town conventions, to move away, to engage the world that was then known to be vast, new and no longer inaccessible. It is accepted that Winesburg, the fictional town, is based on Anderson’s hometown, Clyde, Ohio. In the book’s composition Anderson became a loyal and meaningful correspondent with Gertrude Stein, who was living in Paris. Stein is credited not with forcing her style on Anderson, but with freeing him to find his authentic voice and style. Anderson is also known for his kind mentoring of the young and callow William Faulkner when both lived for a time New Orleans, a kindness that Faulkner failed to acknowledge or repay. (Summary by Michael Hogan)

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Product Details

Read by: Multiple readers
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Type: Collaborative reading
Media: MP3 CD
Package: Paper sleeve
Item No.: CD-1046
List Price: $3.99
Artwork: Disc contains 300 dpi image files for printing
CD label art: Includes both square JPG and round PNG formats
CD jewel case art: Includes cover, inner insert, and J-card
DVD case art: Includes wrapper for Amaray box and inner insert

Credits


Production

Book Coordinator: Stewart Wills
Meta Coordinator: David Barnes

Artwork
Cover: Broadway, Lorain, Ohio (1917 Postcard), C.T. American Art
DVD Inset: Line drawing of Anderson's face with the artist's name "Hyde Man" on it and probably done in the early 1930s.
DVD Insert background: Map of the town Winesburg, Ohio from the first edition.

The Recordings

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The Recordings

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Table of Contents

Track Chapter Reader Length
01 01 - The Book of the Grotesque Stewart Wills 8:01
02 02 - Hands Stewart Wills 15:13
03 03 - Paper Pills Rosalind Wills 7:13
04 04 - Mother Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014) 23:37
05 05 - The Philosopher David Rowland 15:08
06 06 - Nobody Knows Patti Brugman 8:18
07 07 - Godliness Part 1 Gigi Minden 23:08
08 08 - Godliness Part 2 webslog 23:03
09 09 - Godliness Part 3 Surrender Stewart Wills 18:48
10 10 - Godliness Part 4 Terror David Barnes 12:32
11 11 - A Man of Ideas Craig Summers 17:40
12 12 - Adventure Sandra 17:17
13 13 - Respectability Steve Karafit 15:46
14 14 - The Thinker John Lieder 32:13
15 15 - Tandy Betsie Bush 7:13
16 16 - The Strength of God Chris Hughes 18:16
17 17 - The Teacher Chris Hughes 19:22
18 18 - Loneliness Betsie Bush 22:09
19 19 - An Awakening J. M. Smallheer 17:58
20 20 - Queer ML Cohen 20:26
21 21 - The Untold Lie Martin Rink 16:41
22 22 - Drink Miguel Rodriguez 19:42
23 23 - Death Cori Samuel 26:12
24 24 - Sophistication Val Grimm 23:15
25 25 - Departure ranchmutt 6:26

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