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Spoon River Anthology — Edgar Lee Masters

Spoon River Anthology

Edgar Lee Masters

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 283 pages

Spoon River Anthology is a collection of free-verse epitaphs spoken by the dead of a fictional Illinois town. Their brief monologues reveal everyday lives, hidden connections and quiet secrets. It is worth hearing for its unusual mosaic of small-town America and its understated irony.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. Spoon River Anthology
  2. Contents
  3. The Hill
  4. Hod Putt
  5. Ollie McGee
  6. Fletcher McGee
  7. Robert Fulton Tanner
  8. Cassius Hueffer
  9. Serepta Mason
  10. Amanda Barker
  11. Constance Hately
  12. Chase Henry
  13. Harry Carey Goodhue
  14. Judge Somers
  15. Kinsey Keene
  16. Benjamin Pantier
  17. Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
  18. Reuben Pantier
  19. Emily Sparks
  20. Trainor, the Druggist
  21. Daisy Fraser
  22. Benjamin Fraser
  23. Minerva Jones
  24. “Indignation” Jones
  25. “Butch” Weldy
  26. Doctor Meyers
  27. Mrs. Meyers
  28. Knowlt Hoheimer
  29. Lydia Puckett
  30. Frank Drummer

and 219 more chapters

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