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Today Sherwood Anderson’s place in twentieth-century literature is firmly established. His short stories and novels have earned him a unique position among the writers who have created our literary heritage. His writing is peculiarly an American phenomenon. He drew not on intellectual tradition, but upon the life he saw about him-the very air he breathed, talk by older men in small Middle Western towns who took a fancy to the brilliant, sensitive, imaginative son of a Southern drifter and tall-talr teller, memories of the few books loanes to him by his schoolmasters. This edition of the PORTABLE differs from the first by the inclusion of the entire text of WINESBURG, OHIO, and an editorial abridfment of POOR WHITE. The introduction, chronology, and bibliography have been updated and revised accordingly