# Windmills: A book of fables Author: Cannan, Gilbert, 1884-1955 Genre: Category: Short Stories Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68479 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Windmills%3A+A+book+of+fables+Cannan&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Prophecy of an event is unlikely to be interesting after it and this may be the reason why my prophetic utterances regarding the Great War took the form of Satire. The first of these fables has a history. It was published originally in London as a little orange-covered booklet, called Old Mole’s Novel and it was issued simultaneously with Old Mole, a character to whom I was so attached that it gave me great pleasure to attribute authorship to him. Only a small edition was printed and it soon ran out of print. A copy of it reached Germany and fell into the hands of a group of young men who were incensed by the nonsense the high-born Generals and Admirals were talking in the Reichstag and I... ## Chapters - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/windmills-a-book-of-fables-68479/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/windmills-a-book-of-fables-68479/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/windmills-a-book-of-fables-68479/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/windmills-a-book-of-fables-68479/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/windmills-a-book-of-fables-68479/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/windmills-a-book-of-fables-68479/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/windmills-a-book-of-fables-68479/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/windmills-a-book-of-fables-68479/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/windmills-a-book-of-fables-68479/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/windmills-a-book-of-fables-68479/chapters/10/index.md)