If Winter Don't by Barry Pain (1920)

Name: If Winter Don't
Author: Barry Pain

The story follows a man who is struggling to come to terms with the loss of his wife. He becomes increasingly isolated and disconnected from the world around him, until he finds himself stuck in a never-ending cycle of grief. Despite the efforts of those around him to help him move on, he is unable to shake off the overwhelming sense of sadness and loss. The novel explores themes of love, loss, and the human struggle to come to terms with tragedy.

By Barry Pain · First published 1920 · Genre: Short Stories, Drama, Satire · 15 chapters · 22,950 words

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"IF WINTER COMES" placed its author not only as a Best Seller, but as one of the Great Novelists of to-day. Not always are those royalties crowned by those laurels. Tarzan (of, if I remember rightly, the Apes) never won the double event. And I am told by superior people that, intellectually, Miss Ethel M. Dell takes the hindmost. Personally, I found "If Winter Comes" a most sympathetic and interesting book. I think there are only two points on which I should be disposed to quarrel with it. Firstly, though Nona is a real creation, Effie is an incredible piece of novelist's machinery. Secondly, I detest the utilization of the Great War at the present day for the purposes of fiction. It is altogether too easy. It buys the emotional situation ready-made. It asks the reader's memory to supplement the writer's imagination. And this is not my sole objection to its use.

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Work type: Novel
Author: Barry Pain
Date: 1920 CE
Language: English
Genres: Short Stories, Drama, Satire
Length: 22,950 words
Structure: 15 chapters, 621 paragraphs
Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)

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Short Stories — The book is a compilation of short stories, which are independent and complete narratives in themselves.
Drama — The book involves intense character development and emotional conflicts, seen in various forms across different stories.
Satire — Some of the stories in the book involve humor, exaggeration, and irony to criticize or mock societal behavior.