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The Golden Book of Springfield

The Golden Book of Springfield

Vachel Lindsay

The Golden Book of Springfield is a utopian novel by Vachel Lindsay, written between 1904 and 1918 and published in 1920. Set in Springfield, Illinois, it imagines the city transformed into a paradise in the year 2018, as experienced through mystical visions by the Prognosticators' Club and the author. The narrative explores themes of spiritual awakening and social reform in a community grappling with corruption and commercialism, guided by the enigmatic figure of St. Friend.

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A utopian novel written between 1904 and 1918 and published in 1920. Set in Lindsay's hometown of Springfield, Illinois,...

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Fiction. Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) was the most intensely romantic U.S. poet of his generation, a Prairie State populis...

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