Poor White

  • Author Sherwood Anderson
  • Narrator Traber Burns
  • Publisher Blackstone Publishing
  • Run Time 10 hours and 56 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Classic fiction.
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What to expect

Hugh McVey is an inventor who moves from Missouri to Bidwell, Ohio. He creates a mechanical cabbage planter to ease the workload of farmers, but an investor exploits his product. His next invention, a corn cutter, makes him a fortune and transforms the small town in Ohio into a center of manufacturing. McVey, lonely and ruminative, meets Clara Butterworth, who attends Ohio State. Published one year after the short story collection Winesburg, Ohio, this novel has a modernist style and a realist attention to everyday life, and holds a significant amount of contemporary resonance.

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