Anderson called this 1921 collection a book of impressions from American life, and it moves through Midwestern towns and farms in stories such as I Want to Know Why, Seeds, Unlighted Lamps and The Egg, in which a father’s doomed chicken farm and roadside restaurant become an emblem of thwarted ambition. Short prose poems sit between the tales.
The follow-up to Winesburg, Ohio, and for many readers Anderson’s finest single collection. Download the free EPUB.