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[[File:ODTAA.jpg|thumb|First edition (publ [[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]])]]
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'''''ODTAA''''' (1926) by [[John Masefield]] is an [[adventure novel]] first published in February 1926.<ref name=NColbeck1987>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aQetGZ2D3YYC&dq=odtaa&pg=PA533|title=A Bookman's Catalogue M-End|volume=2|author=Norman Colbeck, [[University of British Columbia]]. Library. Special Collections Division|date=1987|publisher=[[UBC Press]]|isbn=9780774802826|page=533|editor=R. N. Colbeck, T. Bose}}</ref> The letters in its title stand for "One Damn Thing After Another".<ref>Wouter J. Hanegraaff (2013) [https://books.google.com/books?id=khaNd720XQMC&dq=odtaa+john+masefield&pg=PA121 Western Esotericism: A guide for the Perplexed] p. 121.</ref> 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]]''.<ref name=DHahn2015>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mb66BwAAQBAJ&dq=odtaa&pg=PA379|title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature|isbn=9780199695140|date=19 July 1984|author=Daniel Hahn, Michael Morpurgo|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|page=379}}</ref>

The novel inspired the orchestral overture, also titled ''ODTAA'', by [[Doreen Carwithen]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mp0uDwAAQBAJ&dq=odtaa+doreen+carwithen&pg=PA63|title=A New Dictionary of Music|page=63|author=Arthur Jacobs|date=28 July 2017|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|isbn=9781351534888}}</ref>

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==External links==
* {{Internet Archive|id=in.ernet.dli.2015.185725|name=''ODTAA''|page=3}}

[[Category:1926 British novels]]
[[Category:Novels by John Masefield]]
[[Category:English adventure novels]]
[[Category:Novels set in South America]]


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