Essay from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Technical University of Darmstadt (Institut fur Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft), course: Narrative Cycles , language: English, abstract: Sherwood Anderson's short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio" was first published in 1919. The cycle contains 25 short stories, including the outstanding first story The Book ofthe Grotesque and a four-part tale called Godliness . The narration in this cycle isauthorial with a shifting focalization depending on who is the protagonist in the stories.