Bought from the charity book table, Tesco, Church Road, Hove

Although the characters in Winesburg , Ohio are the simple, ordinary people of a typical Ohio small town, almost all of them are remarkable in some way or another. Adolf Myers alias Wing Biddlebaum in the story "Hands" is an unfortunate schoolteacher whose affection for his pupils is misinterpreted by a half-wit, whereupon he is hounded out of town. Dr Percival is a drunken mystic who tells George Willard the young reporter (Anderson's Stephen Daedalus) that "everyone in the world is Christ". Jesse Bentley the old farmer thinks he is a Man of God. Alice Hindman a clerk in a dry goods store runs naked in the rain. And Enoch Robinson in "Loneliness" carries on conversation with the people of his imagination.
Winesburg Ohio caused a furore in 1919 when it appeared. It was something entirely new and peculiarly American in the fiction of the period. The New Republic reviewed it : As a challenge to the snappy short story form, with its planned proportions of flippant philosophy, epigrammatic conversation and sex danger, nothing better has come out of America than Winesburg Ohio

Mailed to the winner of the Global Sweeps...... hope you enjoy!

Today I opened the mailbox and there were so many parcels in there, I couldn't carry them inside in one go. So I assumed I must have been the lucky winner of a sweeps, and indeed I am. Thanks for sending this my way!

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