The Golden Book of Springfield by Vachel Lindsay
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"The Golden Book of Springfield" by Vachel Lindsay is a utopian novel written between 1904 and 1918 and published in 1920. Set in Lindsay's hometown of Springfield, Illinois, the work envisions the city's transformation into a paradise one hundred years into the future. Through mystical visions experienced by the Prognosticators' Club and the author himself, the narrative depicts citizens working toward spiritual awakening and social reform, guided by the enigmatic St. Friend,
who seeks to unite all religions into one blessed community. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Golden Book of Springfield |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Book_of_Springfield |
| Note | "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." |
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Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 66.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Utopias in literature |
| Subject | Springfield (Ill.) -- In literature |
| Subject | Springfield (Ill.) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 59860 |
| Release Date | Jul 5, 2019 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 348 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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