A Story-Teller's Story (1924) by Sherwood Anderson is a semi-autobiographical work in which the author outlines his journey as a writer and artist in the early twentieth century.
James Joyce's A Portrait Of The Artist as A Young Man (1916) portrays the development of Stephen Dedalus, an Irish man, from childhood to his leaving a Roman Catholic seminary. Stephen is a writer, as George is, and this novel depicts Stephen's departure for the larger world.
Ernest Hemingway's The Torrents of Spring (1926) is a satirical novel which ridicules Anderson's simple, small-town prose, as well as his focus on common folk.
William Graham Sumner's Folkways.....
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