This Norton Critical Edition includes:



The 1919 first book edition of the stories, with Harald Toksvig’s original map of the fictional Winesburg.
A thoughtful and thought-provoking preface and expanded explanatory footnotes by Marc K. Dudley.
Selections from Anderson’s memoirs, two of them new to the Second Edition.
Eight contemporary reviews of Winesburg, Ohio by critics including William Faulkner and H. L. Mencken.
Nine interpretive essays, five of them new to the Second Edition.
A chronology and an updated selected bibliography.