Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (Penguin Classics) prayerbook Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry

Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales

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often alluding to other creatures from jellyfish to elephants for useful comparisons and contrasts

First published nearly a century ago

interspersed with hauntingly beautiful descriptions of the lives on the animals and plants that illuminate it

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (Penguin Classics) prayerbook Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry"Winesburg, Ohio" (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the centre is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town's 'grotesques' solitary figures unable to communicate with others. George is their conduit for expression and solace from loneliness, but he has his own longings which eventually draw him away from home to