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A Story-Teller's Story: Memoirs of Youth and Middle Age
A StoryTeller's Story Memoirs of Youth and Middle Age
Author: Sherwood Anderson
1924. Anderson, whose prose style, derived from everyday speech, influenced American short story writing between World Wars I and II. He directed the American short story away from the neatly plotted tales of O. Henry and his imitators. A Story Teller's Story is Anderson's own tale of an American writer's journey through his own imaginative worl...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140094435
ISBN-10: 0140094431
Publication Date: 5/1/1989
Pages: 448
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
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In Sherwood Anderson's own words, these classic memoirs are "the tale of an American writer's jounrey through his own imaginative world and through the world of facts, with many of his experiences and impressions among other writers"

The book is much more than that: It is the story of an artist and an idealist in his untiring struggle against the materialism and standardization of American life.


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