ODTAA

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ODTAA (1926) by John Masefield is an adventure novel first published in February 1926.{{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}} The letters in its title stand for "One Damn Thing After Another".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. 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.{{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}}

The novel inspired the orchestral overture, also titled ODTAA, by Doreen Carwithen.{{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}}