"Sherwood Anderson'sWinesburg, Ohiochanged modern American storytelling, kindling innovations by Faulkner, Hemingway, and, through them, fictioneers around the world. With scholarly rigor and critical imagination, Marc Dudley gives a new generation of students, teachers, and general readers a superbly conceived edition of this breakthrough work." -Stephen Cushman, University of Virginia

"This edition ofWinesburg, Ohiocontextualizes Anderson as a key figure of American literary modernism and offers a selection of secondary criticism that includes Anderson in conversations about race, gender, and disability. More than a century after its publication,Winesburg, Ohiostill resonates with readers who find in its pages what it means to be alone together." -Verna Kale, The Pennsylvania State University