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LEADER: 01625cam 2200265Ma 4500
001 ocm80805183
003 OCoLC
005 20101108172103.0
008 930616s1992 nyu 000 0 eng d
010 $a 91062096
040 $aCStcl$cJRZ$dOCLCG$dSINLB$dVUE
020 $a0451525302 (pbk.)
020 $a9780451525307 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)80805183
050 4 $aPS3525.A83S5 1992
082 04 $a811.52$221
100 1 $aMasters, Edgar Lee,$d1868-1950.
245 10 $aSpoon River anthology /$cby Edgar Lee Masters ; with an introduction by John Hollander.
260 $aNew York :$bSignet,$c1992.
300 $a285 p. ;$c18 cm.
500 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 285).
520 $aIn 1915, Edgar Lee Masters published a book of dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional town called Spoon River. Based on the midwestern towns where Edgar Lee Masters grew up, the shocking scandals and secret tragedies of Spoon River were immediately recognized by readers as authentic. Masters raises the dead "sleeping on the hill" in the village cemetery to tell the truth about their lives, and their testimony topples the American myth of the moral superiority of small-town life. Spoon River is as undeniably corrupt and truel as the big city, and is home to murderers, drunkards, crooked bankers, lechers, bitter wives and abusive husbands, failed dreamers, and a few good souls. The freshness of this landmark work has not diminished, and Spoon River Anthology remains an American classic.
700 1 $aHollander, John.
994 $aZ0$bPMR
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN PMR - 10 OTHER HOLDINGS