Explore places where you can discover hidden caves and castles, candy and whistle factories or workshops of inventors. Log forts and lighthouses. Well-known attractions plus hundreds of places you've probably never thought of Make short vacation plans or get to know your favorite area better. Each[...]
Loaded with hundreds of stunning photographs of high-end custom homes, these gorgeousbooks are a must for lovers of residential architecture as well as a resource for people planning to build their ownone-of-a-kind houses. Harking from a very scenic and historic region of the United States, this bea[...]
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SARA WHEELER'He was the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing' William FaulknerThis timeless cycle of short stories lays bare the life of a small town in the American Midwest.[...]
Profiles the people of a small midwestern town in the early 1900s, revealing the consequences of human misunderstanding[...]
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the center is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town's solitary figures. Anderson's stories influenced countles[...]
This series fills immense gaps in knowledge of issues related to early life development of fishes in the Ohio basin. Volume I includes familes Acipenseridae to Esocidae, Volume II includes the Catostomidae, while Volume III addresses the developmental and morphological issues of catfish and madtoms.[...]
On a hot and dusty Sunday in June 1872, 13-year-old Mary Secaur set off on her two-mile walk home from church. She never arrived. The horrific death of this young girl inspired an illegal interstate pursuit-and-arrest, courtroom dramatics, conflicting confessions, and the daylight lynching of a trav[...]
First published in French in 1792, Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio tells the fascinating story of French aristocrat Claude-Francois de Lezay-Marnesia and the utopia he attempted to create in what is now Ohio. Looking to build a perfect society based on what France might have become withou[...]
Before Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fiction--evoking with lyrical simplicity quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women. In a bed, elevated so that he can peer out the[...]
The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the first book edition, published in 1919, and includes Harald Toksvig's original map of the fictional Winesburg. Ample annotation is provided throughout. "Backgrounds" includes five of Anderson's letters, which illustrate his ideas about the stori[...]
Twenty-one interconnected stories follow the lives of the solitary inhabitants of a small Midwestern town who confide their disappointments in life and dashed hopes to George Willard, a local reporter. Reissue.[...]
"Here [is] a new order of short story," said H.L. Mencken when Winesburg, Ohio was published in 1919. "It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own." Indeed, Sherwood Anderson's timeless cycle of loosely connected tales--[...]
- Revised volume features new text, new sidebars, new photographs, new (and more) maps, plus a time line and almanac of fast facts, and a gallery of famous people from the state.
- For More Information back matter includes a listing of books, organizations, and Internet sites for further research[...]
Say hello to Mr. Geo, everybody's favorite geography teacher Today he's visiting Ohio, the Buckeye State.His first stop isthefun-filled Ohio State Fair.He'll visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the WrightBrothers bike shop and workshop, mysterious mounds built by Native Americans, sites on the Und[...]
Before Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fictionevoking with lyrical simplicity quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women. In a bed, elevated so that he can peer out[...]