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In Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters presents 244 characters to speak to us posthumously from the cemetery on the hill. They apprise us of their existence from the grave in poetic monologues that describe their private hopes, dreams, ambitions, achievements, failures--all of which came to a sudden end with their death. The individual stories are often moody and severe as they carry their anger and injustices to their graves. These were people who loved life despite its difficulties, or who viciously ruined the lives of others, or who despised their own petty lives. A.D. Blood, the town prohibitionist, hated liquor so much he killed a man who was drunk. Searcy Foote admits without shame that he murdered his infirm aunt for her money and his own independence. Affluent Thomas Rhodes' bank failure caused financial hardship for many of Spoon Rivers' inhabitants when the fault for the downfall belonged to his son's bad loans. These stories uncover the depression, discontent, and prejudice that hide behind a small-town pretense of American virtue. This classic outlines an unforgettable history of Spoon Rivers' jealousies and corruption. Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.
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Poetry (poetic works by one author), Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -, Epitaphs, Cemeteries, American poetry, Poesia Norte Americana, Poetry, Conto Norte Americano, Dead, City and town life, Fiction, Classic Literature, Modern Poetry, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Collections, Non-ClassifiablePlaces
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Des Voix Sous les Pierres: Les Epitaphes de Spoon River
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Nov 13, 2018, Franklin Classics Trade Press
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2009, Wildside Press, LLC
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2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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January 1, 2007, Prestwick House, Inc.
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June 30, 2007, Ediciones Catedra S.A.
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July 3, 2007, Signet Classics
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July 24, 2007, BiblioBazaar
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January 30, 2005, IndyPublish.com
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April 1, 2005, Hesperus Press
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June 30, 2004, Kessinger Publishing
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September 2002, The Audio Partners
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Spoon River Anthology
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November 15, 1997, Tor Classics
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Spoon River Anthology: An Annotated Edition (Prairie State Books)
August 1, 1993, University of Illinois Press
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January 7, 1992, Signet Classics
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Spoon River anthology
1992, University of Illinois Press
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1986, Macmillan
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Spoon River Anthology
June 1984, Caedmon Audio Cassette
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Spoon River Anthology
July 1977, Perfection Learning Prebound
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March 1, 1963, Scribner
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November 1, 1916, Scribner
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Publish date unknown, Classic Publishers
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In Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dream of their lives. First published in book form in 1915, the Anthology was the crowning achievement of Masters' career as a poet, and a work that would become a landmark of 20th-century American literature.
In these pages, no less than 214 individual voices are heard — some in no more than a dozen moving lines. Alternately plaintive, anguished, enigmatic, angry, and contemptuous, the voices of Spoon River, although distinctively small-town Americans, evoke themes of love and hope, disappointment and despair that are universal in their resonance.
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