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Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology [EPUB ebook]

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Spoon River Anthology (1915) is a collection of short free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters. The poems collectively narrate the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River, which ran near Masters’s home town of Lewistown, Illinois. The aim of the poems is to demystify rural and small town American life. The collection includes 212 separate characters, in all providing 244 accounts of their lives, losses, and manners of death. Many of the poems contain cross-references that create a candid tapestry of the community.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 364 ● ISBN 9788874175697 ● File size 2.5 MB ● Publisher REA Multimedia ● Published 2024 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 10013992 ● Copy protection without

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