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Spoon River Anthology



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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
Spoon River Anthology (Signet Classics)

Signet Classics

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Here are Masters's dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional Midwestern town called Spoon River. The dead, "sleeping on the hill" in their village cemetery, awaken to tell the truth about their lives, toppling the myth of the moral superiority of small-town life.

Spoon River Anthology

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The dead citizens of Spoon River recite poems about their lives, their town, and their sorrows. Each poem is an epitaph, containing fragments of the town’s history. Instantly successful upon its publication in 1915, “Spoon River Anthology” is an unconventional work that explores the gripping but often bleak truths about life in a small American town.
Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters

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Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town. The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate characters, all providing two-hundred forty-four accounts of their lives and losses. (wikipedia)
Spoon River Anthology - Literary Touchstone Classic

Prestwick House, Inc.

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This complete and unabridged Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology features an extensive glossary and reader's notes to help readers better understand and fully appreciate Masters' work. IN THE TOWN OF SPOON RIVER, ILLINOIS, the dead have been given one final opportunity to speak to the living in the form of epitaphs. Take a stroll through the graveyard; the words on each tombstone create an image of the way the person's life was lived. Together, these tombstones tell of a community that strove for perfection and goodness and relied heavily on faith-but, things don't always turn out as planned... Discover their secrets, heartaches, and regrets; sympathize with their guilt, anger, and sorrow; mourn with those the dead left behind; wander through the history these individuals made through their actions. Ultimately, this cemetery tells of lives that were far from perfect- sometimes, they were even far from good. Through their epitaphs, it becomes clear that these townspeople-neighbors, friends, lovers, family members, and even murderers-saw each other very differently, but now, they all are at rest, as equals, sleeping on the hill.
Spoon River Anthology

Neeland Media LLC

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"Spoon River Anthology" is a collection of poetry taken from the tombstones of the dead in a small rural American town. There is of course no Spoon River as the entire town and its inhabitants are fictional. "Spoon River Anthology" is Masters's masterpiece, a collection of poetry that reveals the posthumous confessions of the transgressions of a group of small-town Americans. Together this collection reads like a novel exposing the fallacy in the idea of the rural American utopia. "Spoon River Anthology" is a truly original work of American literature.

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Suspense master Jeffery Deaver highlights June author line-up at ...
Examiner.com - Jun 02, 2009
Suspense master Jeffery Deaver highlights June author line-up at ... The Chester County Book and Music Company (CCBMC) has announced its June 2009 line-up of author visits. Thriller fans will be thrilled to learn that best-selling master suspense novelist Jeffery Deaver is on it. The Edgar award-winning author will

20th Annual Master's Day set for June 6 - Canton Daily Ledger
Canton Daily Ledger, IL - May 30, 2009
20th Annual Master's Day set for June 6Final plans are underway for the 20th Annual Edgar Lee Masters Day sponsored by the Lewistown Chamber of Commerce on Sat., June 6. Poet Edgar Lee Masters, author of Spoon River Anthology, published in 1915, grew up in Lewistown in the 1880s and 90s and

Northgate High School Class of 2009 to graduate Friday - Newnan Times-Herald
Newnan Times-Herald, GA - Feb 11, 1223
Northgate High School Class of 2009 to graduate Friday Masters, Mary Brianne Mathis, William Joseph Maynard, Erin Ashley Mayo, Benjamin Dodd McCoy, Christine Victoria McDowell, Felicia Michelle McEwen, Ronald Christopher McGruder Jr., Victoria Leigh McIntosh, William Daniel McIntyre, Cody Lee McKinzie,

Brat Productions Brings Edgar Allan Poe's Body To The Stage In ... - Broadway World
Broadway World, NY - Feb 11, 6522
Brat Productions Brings Edgar Allan Poe's Body To The Stage In During this the 200th anniversary year of Edgar Allan Poe's birth, Brat Productions will unearth the images, characters and scenes from works by the master of the macabre for the world premiere of Haunted Poe, a theatrical production uniting literature

'Curse of life' keeps us talking - News & Observer
News & Observer, NC - Feb 11, 307
'Curse of life' keeps us talkingBY AC SNOW - Correspondent In his "Spoon River Anthology," poet Edgar Lee Masters wrote, "Sex is the curse of life!" Before you weigh in with cries of "No way!" let me argue that it is for some. The "some" includes Elizabeth and John Edwards.