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Title: If Winter Don't
A B C D E F Notsomuchinson

Author: Barry Pain

Release Date: December 1, 2008 [EBook #27375]

Language: English

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IF WINTER
DON'T

=A.B.C.D.E.F.=
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BY

BARRY PAIN

NEW YORK

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1922, by
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

All rights reserved

First Printing, September 9, 1922
Second Printing, October 19, 1922
Third Printing, November 22, 1922
Fourth Printing, December 5, 1922

Printed in the United States of America

_These parodies do good to the book parodied; great good, sometimes;
they are kindly meant, and the parodist has usually keenly enjoyed the
book of which he sits down to make a fool._

R. L. STEVENSON.

PREFATORY NOTE

I

"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.

II

I wonder if I might, without being thought blasphemous, say a word or
two about the Great Novelists of to-day. They have certain point