<p>This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg’s population are seen through the eyes of a young reporter-narrator George Willard. </P><P>Their stories are about loneliness and alienation passion and virginity wealth and poverty thrift and profligacy carelessness and abandon. With its simple and intense style <em>Winesburg Ohio</em> evokes the quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women.</p> <p>Though its reputation once suffered <em>Winesburg Ohio </em>is now considered one of the most influential portraits of pre-industrial small-town life in the United States. In 1998 the Modern Library ranked it twenty-fourth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century and it continues to be read widely both in and out of classrooms around the country.</p></p><P>A Blackstone Audio production.</P>