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A 2005 Sherwood Anderson Short Story Contest finalist!It’s 1916, and Roy is a southern teenager deeply in love with a sweetheart Yankee named Emily…with a hidden mean streak.  When the circus comes to town and a rampaging elephant named M… more

“It’s, more or less, The Hobbit re-imagined as a series of southern-fried crime misadventures. Hank Grady’s far-flung higher-n-hobbit-height tall tales are the stuff of legend.” —Jedidiah Ayres, Editor of NOIR @ THE BAR and DICKED, AN ANTH… more

Edgar is a ghost cursed to spend his nights at Sunfall Manor, an apartment complex that was once a farmhouse in the flatlands of Nebraska. Every night he must move through five different dwellings, haunted by the living—a drunken and parano… more

An early gem from the greatest American writer of the twentieth century First published in 1926, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at that “great race” of writers, it depicts a vog… more

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Like Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, Brian Doyle’s stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people.In a distinctive and lyrical voice, Doyle tel… more

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This file includes: Sister Carrie (1900), Jennie Gerhardt (1911), The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914, and Twelve Men (1919); with active links to every chapter. According to Wikipedia: “Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – D… more

Here is the steamy underside of rural America, the back roads, back doors, and back rooms of a town called Groom, Pennsylvania. Secrets are sacred in a place where one’s business is everyone’s business, and the erotic stories in Backwoods b… more

Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant’s grandfather and two granduncles, The Wettest County in the World is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ra… more

THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUS When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple … more

Winesburg, Ohio is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson.

Ghosts abound in Manhattan, and with the aid of Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg’s extensive guide, you can still hobnob with cultural icons such as Dorothy Parker and Sherwood Anderson or glimpse Harry Houdini’s ghost, who is said to haunt the… more

Hugh McVey was born in a little hole of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. It was a miserable place in which to be born. With the exception of a narrow strip of black mud along… more

Why did Fanny do this? The judge would like to know. The judge would like to help her. The judge says: “Now, Fanny, tell me all about it.”All about it, all about it! Fanny’s stoical face stares at the floor. If Fanny had words. But Fanny ha… more

About this Edition:-Fully linked table of contents-Carefully edited for Kindle and compared with original manuscript to preseve quality-New 2011 Chapter containing an introduction and analysis of plot, setting, characters, etc.About the Boo… more

Poor White is an American novel by Sherwood Anderson, published in 1920.It is the story of an inventor, Hugh McVey, who rises from poverty on the bank of the Mississippi River. The novel shows the influence of industrialism on the rural hea… more

Winesburg, Ohio is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The work covers George’s life from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandoning of Winesburg as a young man; the style of t… more