The story of Spoon River's inhabitants is related in their poetic, imaginative epitaphs

Spoon River Anthology

Literature & Fiction

Masters, Edgar Lee

Poetry

Collier-Macmillan Publishers

The New Spoon River [May 01, 1968] Masters, Edgar Lee

The New Spoon River

Macmillan Pub. Co.

History & Criticism

Scribner

The innovative free verse collection of small-town life that made Edgar Lee Masters a legend A literary sensation when it appeared in 1915, Spoon River Anthology earned Edgar Lee Masters comparisons to T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman. The characters who speak here tarnish the pure image of their Midwestern hamlet by holding forth from the grave with tales of illicit love affairs, betrayed confidences, political corruption, and miserable marriages. The first serious work of psychological naturalism, this artful indictment of small-town hypocrisy influenced Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, and other luminaries. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Spoon River Anthology (Penguin Classics)

United States

Penguin Publishing Group

Across Spoon River (Prairie State Books)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

University of Illinois Press

Excerpt from Dramatic Duologues: Four Short Plays in VerseThe scene is an ante-chamber in the palace. Henry is seated so that the full, red seriousness of his gross and power ful face fronts the audience. His hands are upon his knees which he occasionally pats while meditating. He is mum bling to himself, moving his lips as he does so. Ann enters in anxiety, almost terror, and nearly ready to give away to tears. Henry does not turn his head or notice her.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Dramatic Duologues: Four Short Plays in Verse (Classic Reprint)

Dramas & Plays

Forgotten Books

History

Franklin Classics

From "Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology was an immediate commercial success when it was published in 1915. Unconventional in both style and content, it shattered the myths of small town American life. A collection of epitaphs of residents of a small town, a full understanding of Spoon River requires the reader to piece together narratives from fragments contained in individual poems."

Across Spoon River: An Autobiography

Octagon Books

A notorious success when it was first published in 1915, this collection of dramatic monologues by over 200 former inhabitants of the fictional town of Spoon River topples the myth of moral superiority in small-town America, as the dead give testimony to their shocking scandals and secret tragedies. (Literature/Classics)

Spoon River Anthology (Signet Classics)

Classics

Signet Classics

In 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 he 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 their 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, as undeniably corrupt and cruel as the big city, is home to murderers, drunkards, crooked bankers, lechers, bitter wives, abusive husbands, failed dreamers, and a few good souls. The freshness of this masterpiece undiminished, Spoon River Anthology remains a landmark of American literature. With an Introduction by John Hollander and an Afterword by Ronald Primeau

Spoon River Anthology: 100th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)

Humor & Satire

Signet

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