INTRODUCTION
by Irving Howe
I must have been no more than fifteen or sixteen years old when I first chanced upon Winesburg, Ohio.
Gripped by these stories and sketches of Sherwood Anderson's small−town "grotesques," I felt that he was
opening for me new depths of experience, touching upon half−buried truths which nothing in my young life
had prepared me for. A New York City boy who never saw the crops grow or spent time in the small towns
that lay sprinkled across America, I found myself overwhelmed by the scenes of wasted life, wasted
love−−was this the "real" America?−−that Anderson sketched in Winesburg. In those days only one other
book seemed to offer so powerful a revelation, and that was Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.
Several years later, as I was about to go overseas as a soldier, I spent my last weekend pass on a somewhat
quixotic journey to Clyde, Ohio, the town upon which Winesburg was partly modeled. Clyde looked, I
suppose, not very different from most other American towns, and the few of its residents I tried to engage in
talk about Anderson seemed quite uninterested. This indifference would not have surprised him; it certainly
should not surprise any− one who reads his book......
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