Spoon River Anthology (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) - Softcover

Edgar Lee Masters; Introduction By Eric Carl Link

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760791058 ISBN 13: 9780760791059

Publisher: Barnes & Noble, 2007

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 320 Publisher: Sterling 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.

About this title

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0760791058
• ISBN 13: 9780760791059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320