Dedicated to Theodore Dreiser, this 1923 collection gathers Anderson’s tales of stable boys, farmers, small-town drifters and lonely women of the Midwest. It includes “I’m a Fool,” a racetrack swipe’s rueful confession of a lie told to impress a girl, along with “Unused” and “The Triumph of a Modern,” told in his plain, searching voice.
Anderson’s strongest collection after Winesburg, Ohio, for readers of American modernism. Download the free EPUB.