![]() ![]() Some were amusing, some almost beautiful. Contents, The book of the grotesque - Hands. The citizens of Winesburg are described obliquely as "grotesques," but as the introductory chapter makes clear, "The grotesques were not all horrible. Title, Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life. ![]() Thus Winesburg tells the story of the townspeople's loneliness and alienation in parallel with the tale of George's own coming of age. Always he had been conscious of the girl growing into womanhood as he grew into manhood. The inarticulate and lonely citizens of Winesburg, each with his or her own secret tale to tell, frequently relate those tales to, or through their interactions with, the character of George Willard, a young Winesburg citizen on the cusp of manhood with dreams of becoming a writer. When the moment of sophistication came to George Willard his mind turned to Helen White, the Winesburg bankers daughter. Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a series of loosely related character studies of the inhabitants of a fictional Midwestern town that together form a novel of unusual unity and vision. ![]() If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment. ![]() Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night, he had said. Download cover art Download CD case insert Winesburg, Ohio Winesburg, Ohio Quotes Showing 1-30 of 76. ![]()
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