''Wintersmoon'' is a 1928 romance novel by the British writer

Hugh Walpole Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (13 March 18841 June 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among ...

. It pits two rival couples against each other one representing

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and the other

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alism with the latter ultimately triumphing.Krueger p.386 In the United States it was included on the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels of 1928, second behind

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References

Bibliography

* Krueger, Christine L. ''Encyclopedia of British Writers: 19th and 20th Centuries''. Infobase Publishing, 2014.

External links

Full text of ''Wintersmoon''
at Internet Archive 1928 British novels Novels by Hugh Walpole Novels set in London Macmillan Publishers books Doubleday, Doran books {{1920s-romance-novel-stub