Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
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Sherwood Anderson. Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
INTRODUCTION
THE TALES AND THE PERSONS
THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE
HANDS
PAPER PILLS
MOTHER
THE PHILOSOPHER
NOBODY KNOWS
GODLINESS
II
III. Surrender
IV. Terror
A MAN OF IDEAS
ADVENTURE
RESPECTABILITY
THE THINKER
TANDY
THE STRENGTH OF GOD
THE TEACHER
LONELINESS
AN AWAKENING
"QUEER"
THE UNTOLD LIE
DRINK
DEATH
SOPHISTICATION
DEPARTURE
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The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed. The windows of the house in which he lived were high and he wanted to look at the trees when he awoke in the morning. A carpenter came to fix the bed so that it would be on a level with the window.
Quite a fuss was made about the matter. The carpenter, who had been a soldier in the Civil War, came into the writer's room and sat down to talk of building a platform for the purpose of raising the bed. The writer had cigars lying about and the carpenter smoked.
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Wing Biddlebaum became wholly inspired. For once he forgot the hands. Slowly they stole forth and lay upon George Willard's shoulders. Something new and bold came into the voice that talked. "You must try to forget all you have learned," said the old man. "You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices."
Pausing in his speech, Wing Biddlebaum looked long and earnestly at George Willard. His eyes glowed. Again he raised the hands to caress the boy and then a look of horror swept over his face.
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