Winesburg, Ohio

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The revolt against the village (about which Anderson was always ambivalent) has faded into history.†

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In the path at the side of the road they were compelled to walk one behind the other.†

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And as for the effort to place Winesburg, Ohio in a tradition of American realism, that now seems dubious.†

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The mild, blue-eyed young Ohio boy was a complete egotist, as all children are egotists.†

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In the one year Jesse made enough money to pay for all the cost of preparing the land and had a surplus that enabled him to buy two more farms.†

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Anderson evokes a depressed landscape in which lost souls wander about; they make their flitting appearances mostly in the darkness of night, these stumps and shades of humanity.†

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Strange, hideous accusations fell from his loosehung lips.†

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To be beaten seemed to be infinitely better than to be thus hurled ignominiously aside.†

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In the woods an intense silence seemed to lie over everything and suddenly out of the silence came the old man's harsh and insistent voice.†

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Something he saw lurking in the staring eyes told him that the man who had nothing to say to others had nevertheless something to say to him.†

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Without looking back, the old man had hurried down the hillside and across a meadow, leaving George Willard perplexed and frightened upon the grassy slope.†

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In actuality, Anderson developed an artful style in which, following Mark Twain and preceding Ernest Hemingway, he tried to use American speech as the base of a tensed rhythmic prose that has an economy and a shapeliness seldom found in ordinary speech or even oral narration.†

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Ostensibly she went to see the doctor because of her health, but on the half dozen occasions when she had been to see him the outcome of the visits did not primarily concern her health.†

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He always wore a dirty white waistcoat out of the pockets of which protruded a number of the kind of black cigars known as stogies.†

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When his way homeward led him again into the street of frame houses he could not bear the sight and began to run, wanting to get quickly out of the neighborhood that now seemed to him utterly squalid and commonplace.†

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As his hard knuckles beat down into the frightened face of the school-master, his wrath became more and more terrible.†