Excerpt from A Reader's Guide to Illinois Literature Our focus is on literature about Illinois: its history and mythology, its social character and politics; its people and landscape. The authors and bibliographers have reviewed hundreds of works by Illinois writers past and present, Chicago and downstate, selecting from among these some of the finest and best-known books, as well as those that are the most Significant in terms of Illinois subject matter. Many of the titles are obscure; many others would make highbrow literary critics sneer; a few, on the other hand, are masterpieces by any standard. But, good or bad, we believe that every work mentioned in the Reader's Guide is _worth reading, both for literary pleasure and for instruction in the Illinois character.

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