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The Golden Book of Springfield

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The Golden Book of Springfield

by Vachel Lindsay

EN·~6 hours·22 chapters

Chapters

22 total

Transcriber’s Note:

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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

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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Book_of_Springfield

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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

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Public domain in the USA.

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59860

Subjects

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

About the author

Vachel Lindsay

1879–1931

A restless, theatrical poet, he tried to bring verse off the page and back into the human voice. His chants, performances, and vivid rhythms made him one of the most distinctive American poets of the early 20th century.

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