The sturdy oak
Elizabeth Garver Jordan
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Description
Elizabeth Jordan collected this composite novel of American politics. She edited it very cautiously, as she says. Fourteen American authors wrote it on a theme by Mary Austin. Henry Holt published it in 1917. The named contributors include Samuel Merwin, Harry Leon Wilson, Fannie Hurst, Dorothy Canfield, Kathleen Norris, Alice Duer Miller, William Allen White, and Mary Austin herself.
Jordan's preface explains that a committee meeting in the spring of 1916 agreed to ask fourteen leading authors, known to be generous as well as gifted, for a chapter each. Jordan was absent from that meeting. The others joyously assigned her the trivial details. She had to get the novel together. She began by persuading each busy author to write. The joke frames the whole experiment in joint fiction.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Elizabeth Garver Jordan |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 349 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |