The Golden Book of Springfield is American poet Vachel Lindsay's strange and mystical odyssey through the Springfield, Illinois of 2018, where the residents of that city strive to turn their home into a democratic utopia. It is a "Springfield a hundred years hence," a dreamlike space of spiritual and social awakenings. But when the threat of international war begins to loom over the horizon, the citizens of Springfield must find new ways to protect their city and keep it a "practical City of God."
This is Vachel Lindsay's only long-form narrative work and a fascinating entry into the utopian fiction subgenre that came about after the publication of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward.
By : Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931)
01 - Chapter I - The Campbellite, the Florist, and the Hostess
02 - Chapter II - The Prognosticator's Club
03 - Chapter III - How People in 1920 Think the Book Will Come, in 2018
04 - Chapter IV - History of the Michaels
05 - Chapter V - I Myself Enter into the Springfield of 2018
06 - Chapter VI - Kopensky versus Boone
07 - Chapter VII - The Drug Stores, Coffee Houses, and Dance Halls
08 - Chapter VIII - The Springfield Flag
09 - Chapter IX - The Beginning of the Flying Machine Riots
10 - Chapter X - The End of the Flying Machine Riots
11 - Chapter XI - St. Friend, and His Two Religious Orders
12 - Chapter XII - The Yellow Dance Halls Are Abolished
13 - Chapter XIII - Surto Hurdenburg is Lynched
14 - Chapter XIV - In the House of the Man From Singapore
15 - Chapter XV - Further Experiences in That Strange Mansion
16 - Chapter XVI - The Return of Joseph Bartholdi Michael
17 - Chapter XVII - The Lynching of Boone. The Interregnum of the Diary. The Golden Book Appears
18 - Chapter XVIII - St. Friend and Avanel Read From the Golden Book
19 - Chapter XIX - Avanel and I Ascend to the Jungles of Heaven
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