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Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters · 1915
Original text in English.
The small towns of the Midwest are then regarded as the home of American virtues, and literature treats them with tenderness. This book makes their dead speak.
Poetry · 246 parts · about 38 000 words · about 2 h 44 of reading
Contents
- The Hill1 min
- Hod Putt1 min
- Ollie McGee1 min
- Fletcher McGee1 min
- Robert Fulton Tanner1 min
- Cassius Hueffer1 min
- Serepta Mason1 min
- Amanda Barker1 min
- Constance Hately1 min
- Chase Henry1 min
- Harry Carey Goodhue1 min
- Judge Somers1 min
- Kinsey Keene1 min
- Benjamin Pantier1 min
- Mrs. Benjamin Pantier1 min
- Reuben Pantier1 min
- Emily Sparks1 min
- Trainor, the Druggist1 min
- Daisy Fraser1 min
- Benjamin Fraser1 min
- Minerva Jones1 min
- “Indignation” Jones1 min
- “Butch” Weldy1 min
- Doctor Meyers1 min
- Mrs. Meyers1 min
- Knowlt Hoheimer1 min
- Lydia Puckett1 min
- Frank Drummer1 min
- Hare Drummer1 min
- Conrad Siever1 min
- Doc Hill1 min
- Andy The Night-Watch1 min
- Sarah Brown1 min
- Percy Bysshe Shelley1 min
- Flossie Cabanis1 min
- Julia Miller1 min
- Johnnie Sayre1 min
- Charlie French1 min
- Zenas Witt1 min
- Theodore the Poet1 min
- The Town Marshal1 min
- Jack McGuire1 min
- Jacob Goodpasture1 min
- Dorcas Gustine1 min
- Nicholas Bindle1 min
- Harold Arnett1 min
- Margaret Fuller Slack1 min
- George Trimble1 min
- Dr. Siegfried Iseman1 min
- “Ace” Shaw1 min
- Lois Spears1 min
- Justice Arnett1 min
- Willard Fluke1 min
- Aner Clute1 min
- Lucius Atherton1 min
- Homer Clapp1 min
- Deacon Taylor1 min
- Sam Hookey1 min
- Cooney Potter1 min
- Fiddler Jones1 min
- Nellie Clark1 min
- Louise Smith1 min
- Herbert Marshall1 min
- George Gray1 min
- Hon. Henry Bennett1 min
- Griffy the Cooper1 min
- Sersmith the Dentist1 min
- A. D. Blood1 min
- Robert Southey Burke1 min
- Dora Williams1 min
- Mrs. Williams1 min
- William and Emily1 min
- The Circuit Judge1 min
- Blind Jack1 min
- John Horace Burleson1 min
- Nancy Knapp1 min
- Barry Holden1 min
- State’s Attorney Fallas1 min
- Wendell P. Bloyd1 min
- Francis Turner1 min
- Franklin Jones1 min
- John M. Church1 min
- Russian Sonia1 min
- Isa Nutter1 min
- Barney Hainsfeather1 min
- Petit, the Poet1 min
- Pauline Barrett1 min
- Mrs. Charles Bliss1 min
- Mrs. George Reece1 min
- Rev. Lemuel Wiley1 min
- Thomas Ross, Jr1 min
- Rev. Abner Peet1 min
- Jefferson Howard1 min
- Judge Selah Lively1 min
- Albert Schirding1 min
- Jonas Keene1 min
- Eugenia Todd1 min
- Yee Bow1 min
- Washington McNeely1 min
- Paul McNeely1 min
- Mary McNeely1 min
- Daniel M’Cumber1 min
- Georgine Sand Miner1 min
- Thomas Rhodes1 min
- Ida Chicken1 min
- Penniwit, the Artist1 min
- Jim Brown1 min
- Robert Davidson1 min
- Elsa Wertman1 min
- Hamilton Greene1 min
- Ernest Hyde1 min
- Roger Heston1 min
- Amos Sibley1 min
- Mrs. Sibley1 min
- Adam Weirauch1 min
- Ezra Bartlett1 min
- Amelia Garrick1 min
- John Hancock Otis1 min
- Anthony Findlay1 min
- John Cabanis1 min
- The Unknown1 min
- Alexander Throckmorton1 min
- Jonathan Swift Somers (Author of the Spooniad )1 min
- Widow McFarlane1 min
- Carl Hamblin1 min
- Editor Whedon1 min
- Eugene Carman1 min
- Clarence Fawcett1 min
- W. Lloyd Garrison Standard1 min
- Professor Newcomer1 min
- Ralph Rhodes1 min
- Mickey M’Grew1 min
- Rosie Roberts1 min
- Oscar Hummel1 min
- Josiah Tompkins1 min
- Roscoe Purkapile1 min
- Mrs. Purkapile1 min
- Mrs. Kessler1 min
- Harmon Whitney1 min
- Bert Kessler1 min
- Lambert Hutchins1 min
- Lillian Stewart1 min
- Hortense Robbins1 min
- Batterton Dobyns1 min
- Jacob Godbey1 min
- Walter Simmons1 min
- Tom Beatty1 min
- Roy Butler1 min
- Searcy Foote1 min
- Edmund Pollard1 min
- Thomas Trevelyan1 min
- Percival Sharp1 min
- Hiram Scates1 min
- Peleg Poague1 min
- Jeduthan Hawley1 min
- Abel Melveny1 min
- Oaks Tutt1 min
- Elliott Hawkins1 min
- Voltaire Johnson1 min
- English Thornton1 min
- Enoch Dunlap1 min
- Ida Frickey1 min
- Seth Compton1 min
- Felix Schmidt1 min
- Schrœder The Fisherman1 min
- Richard Bone1 min
- Silas Dement1 min
- Dillard Sissman1 min
- Jonathan Houghton1 min
- E. C. Culbertson1 min
- Shack Dye1 min
- Hildrup Tubbs1 min
- Henry Tripp1 min
- Granville Calhoun1 min
- Henry C. Calhoun1 min
- Alfred Moir1 min
- Perry Zoll1 min
- Dippold the Optician1 min
- Magrady Graham1 min
- Archibald Higbie1 min
- Tom Merritt1 min
- Mrs. Merritt1 min
- Elmer Karr1 min
- Elizabeth Childers1 min
- Edith Conant1 min
- Charles Webster1 min
- Father Malloy1 min
- Ami Green1 min
- Calvin Campbell1 min
- Henry Layton1 min
- Harlan Sewall1 min
- Ippolit Konovaloff1 min
- Henry Phipps1 min
- Harry Wilmans1 min
- John Wasson1 min
- Many Soldiers1 min
- Godwin James1 min
- Lyman King1 min
- Caroline Branson1 min
- Anne Rutledge1 min
- Hamlet Micure1 min
- Mabel Osborne1 min
- William H. Herndon1 min
- Rebecca Wasson1 min
- Rutherford McDowell1 min
- Hannah Armstrong1 min
- Lucinda Matlock1 min
- Davis Matlock1 min
- Herman Altman1 min
- Jennie M’Grew1 min
- Columbus Cheney1 min
- Wallace Ferguson1 min
- Marie Bateson1 min
- Tennessee Claflin Shope1 min
- Plymouth Rock Joe1 min
- Imanuel Ehrenhardt1 min
- Samuel Gardner1 min
- Dow Kritt1 min
- William Jones1 min
- William Goode1 min
- J. Milton Miles1 min
- Faith Matheny1 min
- Scholfield Hurley1 min
- Willie Metcalf1 min
- Willie Pennington1 min
- The Village Atheist1 min
- John Ballard1 min
- Julian Scott1 min
- Alfonso Churchill1 min
- Zilpha Marsh1 min
- James Garber1 min
- Lydia Humphrey1 min
- Le Roy Goldman1 min
- Gustav Richter1 min
- Arlo Will1 min
- Captain Orlando Killion1 min
- Jeremy Carlisle1 min
- Joseph Dixon1 min
- Judson Stoddard1 min
- Russell Kincaid1 min
- Aaron Hatfield1 min
- Isaiah Beethoven1 min
- Elijah Browning1 min
- Webster Ford1 min
- The Spooniad9 min
- Epilogue13 min
About this text
Edgar Lee Masters († 1950): public-domain work. The text is that of the Project Gutenberg e-book (no. 1280). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
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