Winesburg, Ohio is a small town in midwest America. An average town. In very short chapters that would be readable for people with English as a second language, he describes the people in town. This all is tied loosly together by George Willard, a young reporter, who talks to these people about their lives, hopes, dreams, etc.
This is very good literature, without being "great literature," I mean one of the classics that everyone knows. Taking place in the 20s, it is dated, and this of course might bother some people, but it is very well written, most of the phrases are short making it easily understandable. When we finish this book, we are strangly nostolgice about these old fashioned, innocent times, that seem to be missing in today's big city world.