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Sherwood Anderson

Шервуд Андерсон (1876—1941) – американский писатель, чье творчество оказало влияние на развитие американской литературы в целом и творчество Эрнеста Хемингуэя и Уильяма Фолкнера в частности. Рассказы Андерсона возрождают традиции устного повествования: его фигуры рассказчиков, искренних в своем н...

Triumph of the Egg, and Other StoriesSherwood Anderson Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories THE DUMB MAN 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 wou...

Poor WhiteSherwood Anderson Poor White: A Novel BOOK ONE CHAPTER I Hugh McVey was born in a little hole of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. It was a miserable place in which to be born. With the exception of a narrow strip of black...

Marching MenSherwood Anderson Marching Men BOOK I CHAPTER I Uncle Charlie Wheeler stamped on the steps before Nance McGregor’s bake-shop on the Main Street of the town of Coal Creek Pennsylvania and then went quickly inside. Something pleased him and as he stood before the counter in the shop he ...

Windy McPherson's SonSherwood Anderson Windy McPherson's Son BOOK I CHAPTER I At the beginning of the long twilight of a summer evening, Sam McPherson, a tall big-boned boy of thirteen, with brown hair, black eyes, and an amusing little habit of tilting his chin in the air as he walked, came upon...

Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town LifeSherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life INTRODUCTION by Irving HoweI must have been no more than fifteen or sixteen years old when I first chanced upon Winesburg, Ohio. Gripped by these stories and sketch...