Spoon River Anthology
Credits: Edgar Lee Masters (author)
Summary
More than two hundred dead townspeople of Spoon River, Illinois, speak from the hillside cemetery and tell what their neighbours never knew, from the banker and the preacher to the drunk and the village atheist. Together their epitaphs make a harsh portrait of a small American town, closed by The Spooniad and an epilogue. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.
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Chapters (246)
- 1. The Hill
- 2. Hod Putt
- 3. Ollie McGee
- 4. Fletcher McGee
- 5. Robert Fulton Tanner
- 6. Cassius Hueffer
- 7. Serepta Mason
- 8. Amanda Barker
- 9. Constance Hately
- 10. Chase Henry
- 11. Harry Carey Goodhue
- 12. Judge Somers
- 13. Kinsey Keene
- 14. Benjamin Pantier
- 15. Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
- 16. Reuben Pantier
- 17. Emily Sparks
- 18. Trainor, the Druggist
- 19. Daisy Fraser
- 20. Benjamin Fraser
- 21. Minerva Jones
- 22. “Indignation” Jones
- 23. “Butch” Weldy
- 24. Doctor Meyers
- 25. Mrs. Meyers
- 26. Knowlt Hoheimer
- 27. Lydia Puckett
- 28. Frank Drummer
- 29. Hare Drummer
- 30. Conrad Siever
- 31. Doc Hill
- 32. Andy The Night-Watch
- 33. Sarah Brown
- 34. Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 35. Flossie Cabanis
- 36. Julia Miller
- 37. Johnnie Sayre
- 38. Charlie French
- 39. Zenas Witt
- 40. Theodore the Poet
- 41. The Town Marshal
- 42. Jack McGuire
- 43. Jacob Goodpasture
- 44. Dorcas Gustine
- 45. Nicholas Bindle
- 46. Harold Arnett
- 47. Margaret Fuller Slack
- 48. George Trimble
- 49. Dr. Siegfried Iseman
- 50. “Ace” Shaw
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