Death in the Woods and Other Stories

by Sherwood Anderson

Overview

Sherwood Anderson's short stories, beautifully crafted and evocative of time and place, were hugely influential in their day. The title story in this collection, 'Death in the Woods', is widely regarded as a masterpiece - the narrator looks back at an incident in his childhood where an old woman dies in the cold - in life she was destined to feed those around her, after her death, he feeds from her too.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849025393
Publisher:	Benediction Classics
Publication date:	01/29/2011
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

What People are Saying About This

Malcolm Cowley

"Sherwood Anderson's latest stories have always been under appreciated by comparison with his earlier work. Some of the later ones are new ventures, warmly imagined and marred by fumbling but impressive efforts toward complete honesty of expression. Some of the best recollected in this volume that has often been out of print. In particular, the title stillery is one that obsessed him over the years and compelled him to write it in several versions, of which this is the best. It is part of his lasting contribution to American letters."

Jim Harrison

"Growing up in the Northern Midwest, literature always seem to me to be about distant places. Perhaps the most germinal points in my life is a 15-year old writer at rural agricultural school is when my English teacher gave me all of Sherwood Anderson. Anderson wrote about people that I knew and made me feel that it was possible for me to become a writer. I'm not sure that it would have been possible otherwise. Death in the Woods is a signal junction in Anderson's career and is to my mind one of the finest stories in our language."

Amos Oz

"The stories of Death in the Woods have about them an air of "second simplicity." Anderson makes the trite beam with magical freshness, and the unlikely -- familiar and intimate period."