First edition (publ Heinemann)

ODTAA (1926) by John Masefield is an adventure novel first published in February 1926.[1] The letters in its title stand for "One Damn Thing After Another".[2] It opens with establishing narrative describing the fictional nation of Santa Barbara, which "lies far to leeward of the Sugar States, is at the angle of the continent [of South America], with two coasts, one facing to the north, the other east. The city of Santa Barbara is in a bay at the angle where these two coasts trend one from each other."

The novel is set prior to the events described in Masefield's earlier novel Sard Harker.[3]

The novel inspired the orchestral overture, also titled ODTAA, by Doreen Carwithen.[4]

References

  1. ^ Norman Colbeck, University of British Columbia. Library. Special Collections Division (1987). R. N. Colbeck, T. Bose (ed.). A Bookman's Catalogue M-End. Vol. 2. UBC Press. p. 533. ISBN 9780774802826.
  2. ^ Wouter J. Hanegraaff (2013) Western Esotericism: A guide for the Perplexed p. 121.
  3. ^ Daniel Hahn, Michael Morpurgo (19 July 1984). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 379. ISBN 9780199695140.
  4. ^ Arthur Jacobs (28 July 2017). A New Dictionary of Music. Taylor & Francis. p. 63. ISBN 9781351534888.

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