When Winter Comes to Main Street

by Grant M. Overton

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HUGH WALPOLE	[17]
STEWART EDWARD WHITE	[57]
REBECCA WEST	[79]
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART	[103]
ARNOLD BENNETT	[135]
IRVIN S. COBB	[167]
FRANK SWINNERTON	[227]
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM	[271]
STEPHEN McKENNA	[335]

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WHEN WINTER COMES

TO MAIN STREET

Chapter I

THE COURAGE OF HUGH WALPOLE

i

Says his American contemporary, Joseph Hergesheimer, in an appreciation of Hugh Walpole: “Mr. Walpole’s courage in the face of the widest scepticism is nowhere more daring than in The Golden Scarecrow.” Mr. Walpole’s courage, I shall always hold, is nowhere more apparent than in the choice of his birthplace. He was born in the Antipodes. Yes! In that magical, unpronounceable realm one reads about and intends to look up in the dictionary.... The precise Antipodean spot was Auckland, New Zealand, and the year was 1884.