Project Gutenberg 2007-12-19 Public domain in the USA. 293 Wister, Owen 1860 1938 Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo 1871 1953 Gruger, F. R. (Frederic Rodrigo) Gruger, Frederic R. (Frederic Rodrigo) How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Produced by D Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee" by Owen Wister is a satirical novella written in the early 20th century. This humorous work explores the absurdity of English spelling and the proposed reforms surrounding it, highlighting the chaotic nature of language change. Wister's story takes place during a time when there were widespread discussions about simplifying and modernizing English spelling. The narrative follows Thomas Greenberry, an aloof, scholarly character who becomes unwittingly embroiled in a campaign led by the eccentric Masticator B. Fellows, the president of Chickle University. Greenberry finds himself attending a convention that aims to reform English spelling and encounters a cast of quirky characters, including other scholars like Professor Willows and Miss Appleby. As Greenberry navigates the chaos of the meetings—marked by ludicrous suggestions, conflicts of opinion, and humorous misunderstandings—he realizes that the serious issue of spelling reform is overshadowed by personal flirtations and the bizarre antics of his fellow scholars. Ultimately, the novella serves as a comic critique of both language and its reformers, revealing the complexities and follies inherent in the quest for simplification. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 73.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Satire Spelling reform -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Humour Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Humour Category: Novels Category: American Literature 101813 2025-06-10T05:37:30.563485 text/html 100041 2007-12-19T12:51:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 728512 2007-12-19T12:51:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 734263 2025-06-10T05:37:37.161492 application/epub+zip 733438 2025-06-10T05:37:33.817461 application/epub+zip 104951 2025-06-10T05:37:32.418473 application/epub+zip 862454 2025-06-10T05:37:39.506472 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 849300 2025-06-10T05:37:36.262470 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 191632 2022-09-11T07:41:51.334525 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 82002 2025-06-10T05:37:30.069487 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 81773 2007-12-19T12:51:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 31961 2007-12-19T12:51:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 81766 2007-12-19T12:51:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 31945 2007-12-19T12:51:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21588 2025-06-10T05:37:39.650435 application/rdf+xml 14569 2025-06-10T05:37:32.954464 image/jpeg 3600 2025-06-10T05:37:32.683466 image/jpeg 936155 2025-06-10T05:37:30.594506 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia de.wikipedia