Winesburg, Ohio: Text and Criticism
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140155013 (0140155015)
Publish date: February 24th 1977
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
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"You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices."At the heart of the city and the people in Winesburg, Ohio is a purity, an optimism that over time becomes tainted, decayed, distorted because of missed opportunities or common mistakes experienced in l...
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