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Spoon River anthology, Edar Lee Masters

eng

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non fiction

Spoon River anthology

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Edar Lee Masters

An extraordinary book, which will delight some readers, as its cynicism--or realism--will offend others. Each poem is an autobiographical epitaph of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after a town near the author's home town, which endeavors to reveal life in rural America

Herman Altman -- Hannah Armstrong -- Harold Arnett -- Lucius Atherton -- John Ballard -- Amanda Barker -- Pauline Barrett -- Ezra Bartlett -- Marie Bateson -- Tom Beatty -- Isaiah Beethoven -- Hon. Henry Bennett -- Nicholas Bindle -- Mrs. Charles Bliss -- A.D. Blood -- Wendell P. Bloyd -- Richard Bone -- Caroline Branson -- Jim Brown -- Sarah Brown -- Elijah Browning -- Robert Southey Burke -- John Horace Burleson -- Roy Butler -- Flossie Cabanis -- John Cabanis -- Granville Calhoun -- Henry C. Calhoun -- Calvin Campbell -- Jeremy Carlisle -- Eugene Carman -- Columbus Cheney -- Ida Chicken -- Elizabeth Childers -- John M. Church -- Alfonso Churchill -- Homer Clapp -- Nellie Clark -- Aner Clute -- Seth Compton -- Edith Conant -- E.C. Culbertson -- Robert Davidson -- Silas Dement -- Dippold the optician -- Joseph Dixon -- Batterton Dobyns -- Frank Drummer -- Hare Drummer -- Enoch Dunlap -- Shack Dye -- Imanuel Ehrenhardt -- Epilogue -- State's attorney Fallas -- Clarence Fawcett -- Wallace Ferguson -- Anthony Findlay --Willard Fluke -- Searcy Foote -- Webster Ford -- Benjamin Fraser -- Daisy Fraser -- Charlie French -- Ida Frickey -- James Garber -- Samuel Gardner -- Amelia Garrick -- Jacob Godbey -- Le Roy Goldman -- William Goode -- Harry Carey Goodhue -- Jacob Goodpasture -- Magrady Graham -- George Gray -- Ami Green -- Hamilton Greene -- Griffy the cooper -- Dorcas Gustine -- Barney Hainsfeather -- Carl Hamblin -- Constance Hately -- Aaron Hatfield -- Elliott Hawkins -- Jeduthan Hawley -- Chase Henry -- William H. Herndon -- Roger Heston -- Archibald Higbie -- Doc Hill -- The hill -- Knowlt Hoheimer -- Barry Holden -- Sam Hookey -- Jefferson Howard -- Cassius Hueffer -- Oscar Hummel -- Lydia Humphrey -- Scholfield Huxley -- Lambert Hutchins -- Ernest Hyde -- Dr. Siegfried Iseman -- Blind Jack -- Godwin James -- Plymouth Rock Joe -- Voltaire Johnson -- Fiddler Jones -- Franklin Jones -- "Indignation" Jones -- Minerva Jones -- William Jones -- The circuit judge -- Elmer Karr -- Jonas Keene -- Kinsey Keene -- Bert Kessler -- Mrs. Kessler -- Captain Orlando Killion -- Russell Kincaid -- Lyman King -- Nancy Knapp -- Ippolit Konovaloff -- Dow Kritt -- Henry Layton -- Judge Selah LivelyDaniel M'Cumber -- Rutherford McDowell -- Widow McFarlane -- Fletcher McGee -- Ollie McGee -- Jennie M'Grew -- Mickey M'Grew -- Jack McGuire -- Mary McNeely -- Paul McNeely -- Washington McNeely -- Father Malloy -- Zilpha Marsh -- The Town Marshal -- Herbert Marshal -- Serepta Mason -- Faith Matheny -- Davis Matlock -- Lucinda Matlock -- Abel Melveny -- Mrs. Meritt -- Tom Merritt -- Willie Metcalf -- Doctor Meyers -- Mrs. Meyers -- Hamlet Micure -- J. Milton Miles -- Julia Miller -- Georgine Sand Miner -- Alfred Moir -- Professor Newcomber -- Andy the NIght Wach -- Isa Nutter -- Mabel Osborne -- John Hancock Otis -- Benjamin Pantier -- Mrs. Benjamin Pantier -- Reuben Pantier -- Rev. Abner Peet -- Willie Pennington -- Petit the Poet -- Henry Phipps -- Peleg Poague -- Edmund Pollard -- Cooney Potter -- Lydia Puckett -- Mrs. Purkapile -- Roscoe Purkapile -- Hod Putt -- Mrs. George Reece -- Ralph Phodes -- Gustav Richter -- Hortense Robbins -- Rosie Roberts -- Thomas Ross, Jr. -- Russian Sonia -- Anne Rutledge -- Johnnie Sayre -- Hiram Scates -- Albert Schirding -- Felix Schmidt -- Schroeder the Fisherman -- Julian Scott -- Sexsmith the Dentist -- Harlan Sewall -- Percival Sharp -- "Ace" Shaw -- Percy Bushe Shelley -- Tennessee Claflin Shope -- Amos Sobley -- Mrs. Sibley -- Conrad Siever -- Walter SImmons -- Dillard Sissman -- Margaret Fuller Slack -- Louise Smth -- Many Sodiers -- Jonathan Swift Somers -- Judge Somers -- Emil Sparks -- Lois Spears -- The Spooniad -- W. Lloyd Garrison Standard -- Lillian Steward -- Judson Stoddard -- Robert Fulton Tanner -- Dean Taylor -- Theodore the Poet -- English Thornton -- Alexander Throckmorton -- Eugenia Todd -- Josiah Tompkins -- Trainor the Druggist -- Thomas Trevelyan -- George Trimble -- Henry Tripp -- Hildrup Tubbs -- Francis Turner -- Oaks Tutt -- The Unknown -- John Wasson -- Rebecca Wasson -- Charles Webster -- Adam Weirauch -- "Butch" Weldy -- Elsa Wertman -- Editor Whedon -- Harmon Whitney -- Rev. Lemuel Wiley -- Arlo Will -- William and Emily -- Dora Williams -- Mrs. Williams -- Harry Wilmans -- Zenas Witt -- Yee Bow -- Perry Zoll