When Winter Comes to Main Street

by Grant M. Overton

These two substantial successes confirm my belief that the American public in hundreds of thousands relishes good reading. Without that belief, this book would not have been prepared; but I have prepared it with some confidence that those who relish good reading will be interested in the chapters that follow.

As a former book reviewer and literary editor, as an author and, now, as one vitally concerned in book publishing, my interest in books has been fundamentally unchanging—a wish to see more books read and better books to read.

From one standpoint, When Winter Comes to Main Street is frankly an advertisement; it deals with Doran books and authors. This is a fact of some relevance, however, if, as I believe, the reader shall find well-spent the time given to these pages.

Grant Overton.

19 July 1922.

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CONTENTS

I	THE COURAGE OF HUGH WALPOLE	[15]
II	HALF-SMILES AND GESTURES	[33]
III	STEWART EDWARD WHITE AND ADVENTURE	[55]
IV	WHERE THE PLOT THICKENS	[68]
V	REBECCA WEST: AN ARTIST	[78]
VI	SHAMELESS FUN	[88]
VII	THE VITALITY OF MARY ROBERTS RINEHART	[102]
VIII	THEY HAVE ONLY THEMSELVES TO BLAME	[118]
IX	AUDACIOUS MR. BENNETT	[133]
X	A CHAPTER FOR CHILDREN	[152]
XI	COBB’S FOURTH DIMENSION	[166]
XII	PLACES TO GO	[187]
XIII	ALIAS RICHARD DEHAN	[196]
XIV	WITH FULL DIRECTIONS	[212]
XV	FRANK SWINNERTON: ANALYST OF LOVERS	[225]
XVI	AN ARMFUL OF NOVELS, WITH NOTES ON THE NOVELISTS	[244]
XVII	THE HETEROGENEOUS MAGIC OF MAUGHAM	[270]
XVIII	BOOKS WE LIVE BY	[293]
XIX	ROBERT W. CHAMBERS AND THE WHOLE TRUTH	[308]
XX	UNIQUITIES	[321]
XXI	THE CONFESSIONS OF A WELL-MEANING YOUNG MAN, STEPHEN MCKENNA	[334]
XXII	POETS AND PLAYWRIGHTS	[347]
XXIII	THE BOOKMAN FOUNDATION AND THE BOOKMAN	[366]
	EPILOGUE	[372]
	INDEX	[373]

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