Every character in "Spoon River Anthology" is dead. And the dead speak. In Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology" the speakers lie together in a hillside graveyard in a small, rural community in central Illinois. As they moulder in their earthen tombs, they spill forth their secrets to the living. From its first appearance (in serial form) in the pages of William Marion Reedy's "Mirror" in 1914, the American literary world had not seen anything quite like "Spoon River Anthology", and the world has yet to see its true successor, despite its influence and imitators. The Spoon River dead speak for all of us, and their secrets are the hidden things that prick at the hearts of each of us.
- ISBN10 0760791058
- ISBN13 9780760791059
- Publish Date 17 May 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 January 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Barnes & Noble Inc
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English