The Golden Book of Springfield

by Vachel Lindsay

EN·~6 hours·22 chapters

Chapters

22 total

Transcriber’s Note:

0:57

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1:10

THE PROGNOSTICATOR’S CLUB

0:45

CHAPTER I THE CAMPBELLITE, THE FLORIST AND THE HOSTESS

8:46

CHAPTER II THE PROGNOSTICATOR’S CLUB

10:30

CHAPTER III HOW PEOPLE OF 1920 THINK THE GOLDEN BOOK WILL COME IN 2018

37:15

CHAPTER IV HISTORY OF THE MICHAELS FROM 1920 TO 2018

20:42

CHAPTER V I ENTER INTO THE NEW SPRINGFIELD OF 2018. I AM SNUBBED BY AVANEL, SHE RELENTS, SHOWING ME MANY PANORAMAS OF NEW SPRINGFIELD. WE CONFESS TO HAVING THE SAME DREAM OF DEVIL’S GOLD.

28:37

CHAPTER VI THE TWO FACTIONS:—MAYOR SLICK SLACK KOPENSKY AND HIS BOSS, MAYO SIMS; VERSUS BOONE, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

15:25

CHAPTER VII FURTHER DISCUSSION OF THE POLITICAL MACHINERY, INCLUDING THE CITY HALL DRAG NET OF DRUG STORES, COFFEE HOUSES AND DANCE HALLS.

16:43

Description

"Being the review of a book that will appear in the autumn of the year 2018, and an extended description of Springfield, Illinois, in that year."

Details

Language

Duration

~6 hours (380K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2019-07-05

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Utopias in literature Springfield (Ill.) -- In literature Springfield (Ill.) -- Fiction

About the author

Vachel Lindsay

1879–1931

An energetic American poet and performer, he helped make poetry feel like something heard as much as read. Best known for vivid, rhythmic pieces such as "The Congo," he brought chant, music, and public recitation into modern literary life.

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