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Project Gutenberg's A Parody Outline of History, by Donald Ogden Stewart This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Parody Outline of History Author: Donald Ogden Stewart Posting Date: August 13, 2008 [EBook #1478] Release Date: October, 1998 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A PARODY OUTLINE OF HISTORY *** Produced by Charles Keller 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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