A Sturdy Oak: A Composite Novel Of American Politics By Fourteen American Authors

by Samuel Merwin, Mary Hunter Austin, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, et al.

Book Overview

At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely generous as well as gifted, should be asked to write a composite novel. As I was not present at this particular meeting, it was unanimously and joyously decided by those who were present that I should attend to the trivial details of getting this novel together. It appeared that all I had to do was: First, to persuade...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1522780238
• ISBN13: 9781522780236
• Release Date: November 1917
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

reads like an old movie watches

This was a completely enjoyable read that combined the slapstick humor of old films and weighty issues of the suffrage movement. It was interesting to read a book by people who were living through that part of history rather than reading current authors reporting on it. Also interesting to see the change in voice from one literary giant of that day and age to the other as the story moves from chapter to chapter.