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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