Spoon River Anthology (Signet Classics) - Softcover

Masters, Edgar Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451525302 ISBN 13: 9780451525307

Publisher: Signet Classics, 1992

Synopsis

A notorious success when it was first published in 1915, this collection of dramatic monologues by over 200 former inhabitants of the fictional town of Spoon River topples the myth of moral superiority in small-town America, as the dead give testimony to their shocking scandals and secret tragedies. (Literature/Classics)

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This first illustrated, annotated version of the American classic was highly praised when it was first released, as much for John Hallwas's insightful introduction as for the work of Edgar Lee Masters.

About the Author:

Edgar Lee Masters was born in 1868 in Garnett, Kansas. He achieved fame in 1915 with the publication of Spoon River Anthology. Though he never matched the success of Spoon River Anthology, Masters was a prolific writer of diverse works. He published several volumes of poems including The Great Valley (1916), Along the Illinois (1942), The Serpent in the Wilderness (1933), and Invisible Landscapes (1935). In the 1940s he was awarded the Poetry Society of America medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Academy of American Poets Fellowship. Edgar Lee Masters died in Melrose, Pennsylvania, in 1950 and is buried in Petersburg, Illinois.

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0451525302
• ISBN 13: 9780451525307
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320