Edgar Lee Masters has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators. The most-rated is Spoon River Anthology.
Antologia di Spoon River
Summary
Questa famosa raccolta di poesie, pubblicata tra il 1914 e il 1915 racconta sotto forma di epitaffio la vita dell'ipotetica cittadina di Spoon River, i cui abitanti sono sepolti nel cimitero locale. Le storie si intrecciano alle storie, offrendo un ritratto commovente e crudo delle vite reali che si nascondevano dietro alle apparenze.
©dominio pubblico (P)2021 Silvia Cecchini
Lincoln the Man
Summary
Whenever the subject of Lincoln is brought up, it usually produces a mixed response ranging from adoration to excoriation. Back in 1931 when Lincoln the Man appeared, there were few willing to publicly judge Lincoln on the basis of anything less than hagiographic platitudes. That all changed when the famous poet and writer Edgar Lee Masters published Lincoln the Man. Masters grew to manhood in the same Illinois county where Lincoln also grew up and practiced law. His family knew Lincoln well from his earliest days, and they followed his entire career with interest and rising concern. This book is less a biography and more of an analysis of Lincoln’s thinking process and political evolution from backwoods lawyer to president of the United States. Edgar Lee Masters was born in 1868. He led a successful career as a lawyer in partnership with Clarence Darrow. But it was the publication of his brilliant poetry collection Spoon River Anthology in 1915 which made him famous. Masters would go on to produce 52 other poetry collections, novels, essays, and plays. He died in New York City in 1950 and was buried in Petersburg, Illinois.
©1931, 1997 Hilary Masters (P)2020 Audio Connoisseur
Spoon River Anthology
Summary
Spoon River has 244 accounts of the lives of people in the town that explain its goings on over a couple of centuries. Each free form verse is presented as an epitaph of one of the citizens delivered themselves, often criticizing the words said about them on their tombstone or the monument or stone left above them. The stories build on one another as well as reference various family members and others mentioned in other stories. Sherwood Anderson does a similar thing in Winesburg, Ohio where major characters in their own right become bit players in other people's narratives. It reminds one of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead where Hamlet is only a bit player in their lives. The interplay between successful and unsuccessful, those who think they are high born, as one successful man thought, but was actually the illegitimate child of an old woman who never got to nurture her own successful child. These interplays move the story forward as well as our hearts in reading them.
©2010 Simply Magazine (P)2010 Christina Brown
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Spoon River [Italian Edition]
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Un secolo fa, con l’Antologia di Spoon River e i suoi oltre 200 immortali personaggi che popolano un piccolo cimitero di campagna, Edgar Lee Masters ha consegnato ai posteri la memoria poetica di una comunità. Cent’anni dopo, quei personaggi trovano una voce nuova grazie a 243 ragazzi e ragazze e alla loro interpretazione spontanea, da attori per un giorno. Così il microcosmo umano che era ieri un’immaginaria cittadina dell’Illinois rivive oggi in un progetto con le scuole dall’altra parte del mondo. Opera collettiva realizzata dagli studenti del “Sabin” di Bologna e del “Morigia-Perdisa” di Ravenna, più una squadra di ex (rintracciati perfino in Cina!), Spoon River è un grande happening virtuale, registrato live nelle aule, in sala d’incisione, talvolta a distanza e con mezzi di fortuna, in un colorato mix di accenti e di provenienze. Con la partecipazione straordinaria di David Riondino. Traduzione di Galilea Maioli. Per gentile concessione del prof. Hilary Masters. Tutte le info su spoonriveritaly.net. Una produzione Quondam / Parametri Musicali / RavennaPoesia. Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.
©2013 Quondam Project (P)2015 Quondam Project
Spoon River Anthology
Summary
Deemed "essential" in the canon of American literature, this audiobook masterpiece performed in its entirety by a full cast makes the classic accessible to everyone. From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordidness; others, of their simple, honest, happy lives. Some are elderly and others are youthful or children; mortality has claimed them all. Their voices reach us deeply, alternately plaintive, anguished, enigmatic, angry, contemptuous, and comedic, evoking themes of love and hope, disappointment, despair, and abiding faith. As the Spoon River residents examine their lives, they invite us to do the same.
Public Domain (P)2002 Patrick Franley and the Audio Partners Publishing Corp. Published by The Audio Partners.