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Title: When winter comes to Main Street
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Overton, Grant Martin, 1887-1930 Doran, Firm, Publishers, New York
Subjects: English literature American literature
Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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age oftwelve. Then, in 1896, the family returned to England.Perhaps a tendency to travel had by this timebecome implanted in Hugh, for now, in his latethirties, he is one of the most peripatetic ofwriters. He is here, he is there. You write tohim in London and receive a reply from Cornwallor the Continent. And, regularly, he comes overto America. Of all the English novelists whohave visited this country he is easily the most pop-ular personally on this side. His visit this autumn(1922) will undoubtedly multiply earlier wel-comes. Interest in Walpole the man and Walpole thenovelist shows an increasing tendency to becomeidentical. It is all very well to say that the manis one thing, his books are quite another; but sup-pose the man cannot be separated from his books?The Walpole that loved Cornwall as a lad cantbe dissevered from the Hugh Seymour ofThe Golden Scarecrow; without his Red Crossservice in Russia during the Great War, Walpolecould not have written The Dark Forest; and I (16)
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HUGH WALPOLE (17) THE COURAGE OF HUGH WALPOLE think the new novel he offers us this autumn mustowe a good deal to direct reminiscence of such acathedral town as Durham, to which the familyreturned when Hugh was twelve. The Cathedral, as the new book is called, reststhe whole of its effect upon just such an edificeas young Hugh was familiar with. The Cathedralof the story stands in Polchester, in the west ofEngland, in the county of Glebeshire—that myth-ical yet actual county of Walpoles other novels.Like such tales as The Green Mirror and TheDuchess of Wrexe, the aim is threefold—to givea history of a certain group of people and, at thesame time, (2) to be a comment on English life,and, beyond that, (3) to offer a philosophy of lifeitself. The innermost of the three circles of interestcreated in this powerful novel—like concentricrings formed by dropping stones in water—con-cerns the life of Archdeacon Brandon. When thestory opens he is ruling Polchester, all its life,religiouwhenwintercomest01over

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