Spoon River Anthology (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Edgar Lee Masters, Eric Carl Link (Introduction)

Overview

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Every character in Spoon River Anthology is dead.  And the dead speak.  In Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology the speakers lie together in a hillside graveyard in a small, rural community in central Illinois.  As they moulder in their earthen tombs, they spill forth their secrets to the living.  From its first appearance (in serial form) in the pages of William Marion Reedy’s Mirror in 1914, the American literary world had not seen anything quite like Spoon River Anthology, and the world has yet to see its true successor, despite its influence and imitators.  The Spoon River dead speak for all of us, and their secrets are the hidden things that prick at the hearts of each of us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411466890
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/13/2012
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	424,740
File size:	781 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) penned more than fifty books over the span of his writing career—including nearly thirty volumes of verse, multiple novels and plays, biographies, essays, as well as an autobiography, appropriately titled Across Spoon River (1936).