Spoon River Anthology Author:Edgar Lee Masters Written in 1915. Set in a sleeping Welsh town, the ghosts freely gossip about each other and themselves, as well as about the private lives of people still alive in their village, incluing sex revelations, human corruption and vulnerability. Masters borrowed the mouths of the dead to give outlet to grudges, beliefs, insights, prophecies, glaring... more » injustice, revelations of life's mysteries and paradoxes.« less