Domesday Book
DOMESDAY BOOK
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY
By EDGAR LEE MASTERS
SOME PRESS OPINIONS
“One of the greatest books of the present century.”— Nation.
“The ‘Spoon River Anthology’ has certain qualities essential to greatness—originality of conception and treatment, a daring that would soar to the stars, an instant felicity and facility of expression.”—C. E. Lawrence in The Daily Chronicle .
“Mr. Edgar Lee Masters will become a classic ... so close-packed is the book’s pregnant wit, so outspoken its language, so destructive of cant and pharisaism and the veneer of the proprieties, so piercingly true in insight.”—Edward Garnett in The Manchester Guardian .
“It is a remarkable book and it grips.”— Daily Telegraph.
“This book is of a quality that will endure.... Mr. Masters has been daring with the certainty of success.”— Liverpool Daily Post.
“A quite remarkable volume of verse ... quite masterly.”— Sphere.
“Its reality, ingenuity, irony, insight, and vision are unique.”— Bookman.
DOMESDAY BOOK
Edgar Lee Masters
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CONTENTS
DOMESDAY BOOK
THE BIRTH OF ELENOR MURRAY
FINDING OF THE BODY
THE CORONER
HENRY MURRAY
MRS. MURRAY
ALMA BELL TO THE CORONER
GREGORY WENNER
MRS. GREGORY WENNER
DR. TRACE TO THE CORONER
IRMA LEESE
MIRIAM FAY’S LETTER
ARCHIBALD LOWELL
WIDOW FORTELKA
REV. PERCY FERGUSON
DR. BURKE
CHARLES WARREN, THE SHERIFF
THE GOVERNOR
JOHN SCOFIELD
GOTTLIEB GERALD
LILLI ALM
FATHER WHIMSETT
JOHN CAMPBELL AND CARL EATON
AT FAIRBANKS
ANTON SOSNOWSKI
CONSIDER FREELAND
GEORGE JOSLIN ON LA MENKEN
WILL PAGET ON DEMOS AND HOGOS
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
JANE FISHER
HENRY BAKER, AT NEW YORK
LOVERIDGE CHASE
AT NICE
THE MAJOR AND ELENOR MURRAY AT NICE
THE CONVENT
BARRETT BAYS
ELENOR MURRAY
THE JURY DELIBERATES
THE VERDICT