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Frank Swinnerton

(Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982)

 Identifier: whenwintercomest01over (find matches) 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: uses and then read Nocturne.That is, I would have made this recommendationa few months ago, but so representative of allsides of Swinnertons talent is his new novel, TheThree Lovers, that I should now prefer to say toanyone unacquainted with Swinnerton: Beginwith The Three Lovers9 And after that I wouldhave him read Coquette and the other books inthe order I have named. After he had reachedand finished Nocturne, I would have him turn tothe several earlier novels—The Happy Family,On the Staircase, and The Chaste Wife. 11 The Three Lovers, a full-length novel whichSwinnerton finished in Devonshire in the spring of1922, is a story of human beings in conflict, andit is also a picture of certain phases of modernlife. A young and intelligent girl, alone in theworld, is introduced abruptly to a kind of lifewith which she is unfamiliar. Thereafter thebook shows the development of her character andher struggle for the love of the men to whom sheis most attracted. The book steadily moves(226) Text Appearing After Image: FRANK SWINNERTON (227) SWINNERTON: ANALYST OF LOVERS through its earlier chapters of introduction andgrowth to a climax that is both dramatic and mov-ing. It opens with a characteristic descriptivepassage from which I take a few sentences: It was a suddenly cold evening towards theend of September. . . . The street lamps weresharp brightnesses in the black night, wickedlyrevealing the naked rain-swept paving-stones. Itwas an evening to make one think with joy ofsucculent crumpets and rampant fires and warmslippers and noggins of whisky; but it was not anevening for cats or timid people. The cats wereracing about the houses, drunken with primevalsavagery; the timid people were shuddering andlooking in distress over feebly hoisted shoulders,dreadfully prepared for disaster of any kind,afraid of sounds and shadows and their ownforgotten sins. . . . The wind shook the win-dow-panes; soot fell down all the chimneys;trees continuously rustled as if they were try-ing to keep warm by constant Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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Frank Arthur Swinnerton (12 August 1884 – 6 November 1982) was an English novelist, critic, biographer and essayist. (From Wikipedia)

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  • [Info] Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982, contrib.: The Borzoi 1925: Being a Sort of Record of Ten Years of Publishing (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1925), ed. by Alfred A. Knopf, also contrib. by Brooks Atkinson, Harry Elmer Barnes, Charles A. Beard, Thomas Beer, Edwin Björkman, Claude Fayette Bragdon, Witter Bynner, Willa Cather, A. E. Coppard, Mildred Cram, William Cummings, Walter De la Mare, Floyd Dell, J. S. Fletcher, Wilson Follett, John T. Frederick, David Garnett, Louis Golding, James Henle, Joseph Hergesheimer, Richard Hughes, Storm Jameson, Llewellyn Jones, D. H. Lawrence, Newman Levy, Haldane Macfall, H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, Ernest Newman, James Oppenheim, Roland Pertwee, Julia Peterkin, M. P. Shiel, Lee J. Smits, G. B. Stern, James Stevens, Ruth Suckow, Paul Bernard Thomas, Eunice Tietjens, Carl Van Doren, Carl Van Vechten, Henrie Waste, John V. A. Weaver, Hugh Wiley, Thyra Samter Winslow, Elinor Wylie, and Francis Brett Young (page images at HathiTrust)
  • [Info] Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982: Nocturne (1917), contrib. by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
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