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Title: A Parody Outline of History
Author: Donald Ogden Stewart
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A PARODY OUTLINE OF HISTORY
By Donald Ogden Stewart
Wherein may be found a curiously irreverent treatment of
AMERICAN HISTORICAL EVENTS
Imagining them as they would be narrated
by American's most characteristic
contemporary authors
To
GILBERT HOLLAND STEWART, Jr.
Preface
Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to
omit the narration of many of the chief events in the history of these
United States. Such omissions I have in this brief volume endeavored
to supply. And as American history can possibly best be written by
Americans and as we have among us no H. G. Wells, I have imagined
an American history as written conjointly by a group of our most
characteristic literary figures.
Apologies are due the various authors whose style and, more
particularly, whose Weltanschauung I have here attempted to reproduce;
thanks are due The Bookman for permission to reprint such of these
chapters as appeared in that publication. I give both freely. D. O. S.
Contents
I INTRODUCTION: A Critical Survey of American History In the Manner of
William Lyon Phelps
II CRISTOFER COLOMBO: A Comedy of Discovery In the Manner of James
Branch Cabell
III MAIN STREET: Plymouth, Mass In the Manner of Sinclair Lewis
IV THE COURTSHIP OF, MILES STANDISH In the Manner of F. Scott Fitzgerald
V THE SPIRIT OF '75: Letters of a Minute Man In the Manner of Ring
Lardner
VI THE WHISKY REBELLION In the Bedtime Story Manner of Thornton W.
Burgess
VII HOW LOVE CAME TO GENERAL GRANT In the Manner of Harold Bell Wright
VIII CUSTER'S LAST STAND In the Manner of Edith Wharton
IX FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD: A Drama of the Great War Act I--In the
Manner of Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Ac
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