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.