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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 togreatness--originality of conception and treatment, a daring that wouldsoar 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 thebook's pregnant wit, so outspoken its language, so destructive of cant andpharisaism and the veneer of the proprieties, so piercingly true ininsight."--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 beendaring with the certainty of success."--_Liverpool Daily Post._
"A quite remarkable volume of verse ... quite masterly."--_Sphere._
"Its reality, ingenuity, irony, insight, and vision areunique."--_Bookman._
DOMESDAY BOOK
BY EDGAR LEE MASTERS AUTHOR OF "SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY," ETC.
LONDON EVELEIGH NASH COMPANY LIMITED 1921
_Printed in the United States of America_
TO MY FATHER HARDIN WALLACE MASTERS SPLENDID INDIVIDUAL OF A PASSING SPECIES--AN AMERICAN
CONTENTS
PAGE
DOMESDAY BOOK 1
THE BIRTH OF ELENOR MURRAY 4
FINDING OF THE BODY 9
THE CORONER 13
HENRY MURRAY 23
MRS. MURRAY 36
ALMA BELL TO THE CORONER 50
GREGORY WENNER 59
MRS. GREGORY WENNER 71
DR. TRACE TO THE CORONER 80
IRMA LEESE 84
MIRIAM FAY'S LETTER 94
ARCHIBALD LOWELL 101
WIDOW FORTELKA 110
REV. PERCY FERGUSON 118
DR. BURKE 126
CHARLES WARREN, THE SHERIFF 138
THE GOVERNOR 152
JOHN SCOFIELD 158
GOTTLIEB GERALD 163
LILLI ALM 173
FATHER WHIMSETT 179
JOHN CAMPBELL AND CARL EATON 188
AT FAIRBANKS 210
ANTON SOSNOWSKI 219
CONSIDER FREELAND 229
WILL PAGET ON DEMOS AND HOGOS 247
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT 254
JANE FISHER 270
HENRY BAKER, AT NEW YORK 277
LOVERIDGE CHASE 286
AT NICE 289
THE MAJOR AND ELENOR MURRAY AT NICE 305
THE CONVENT 312
BARRETT BAYS 319
ELENOR MURRAY 356
THE JURY DELIBERATES 377
THE VERDICT 395
DOMESDAY BOOK