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.