Golden Book of Springfield

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Culture & Heritage Fiction, Fantasy Fiction

Authors: Vachel Lindsay In Year : 1920

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Golden Book of Springfield

Chapter I - The Campbellite, the Florist, and the Hostess
Chapter II - The Prognosticator's Club
Chapter III - How People in 1920 Think the Book Will Come, in 2018
Chapter IV - History of the Michaels
Chapter V - I Myself Enter into the Springfield of 2018
Chapter VI - Kopensky versus Boone
Chapter VII - The Drug Stores, Coffee Houses, and Dance Halls
Chapter VIII - The Springfield Flag
Chapter IX - The Beginning of the Flying Machine Riots
Chapter X - The End of the Flying Machine Riots
Chapter XI - St. Friend, and His Two Religious Orders
Chapter XII - The Yellow Dance Halls Are Abolished
Chapter XIII - Surto Hurdenburg is Lynched
Chapter XIV - In the House of the Man From Singapore
Chapter XV - Further Experiences in That Strange Mansion
Chapter XVI - The Return of Joseph Bartholdi Michael
Chapter XVII - The Lynching of Boone. The Interregnum of the Diary. The Golden Book Appears
Chapter XVIII - St. Friend and Avanel Read From the Golden Book
Chapter XIX - Avanel and I Ascend to the Jungles of Heaven

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. - Summary by Chuck Williamson