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Sample ## Take a look inside American Nights Entertainment Grant Overton By GRANT OVERTON About Books and Authors AMERICAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT WHEN WINTER COMES TO MAIN STREET THE WOMEN WHO MAKE OUR NOVELS Fiction ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT THE ANSWERER WORLD WITHOUT END THE THOUSAND-AND-FIRST NIGHT (In Preparation) American Nights Entertainment BY GRANT OVERTON New York, 1923 D. APPLETON & CO. GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY GRANT OVERTON First Printing, September, 1923. Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company New York, U. S. A. Bound in Interlaken-Cloth This Book IS DEDICATED TO BOOKSELLERS AND BOOKREADERS EVERYWHERE BY THE AUTHOR AND THE PUBLISHERS WHO HAVE JOINED IN ITS PRODUCTION Preface THIS book is written because of the rapid spread of the habit of reading books, developing in its march an interest in the personalities of authors. Indeed, the existence of this book is an evidence of the quick contagion of the book-reading habit, since four publishing houses have joined to make possible the pages that follow. Few developments of the early part of this century are more encouraging than the new attention to books. The increase in book stores, the very large increase in the number of books sold, the multiplication of libraries and their great patronage, the success of new book review pages and periodicals—all are signs of the change that has come about in recent years, and perhaps especially during and since the war of 1914-18. And in a narrower department, no development of recent years has borne a more cheerful promise than the resolution of four publishers to associate themselves in an enterprise the disinterestedness of which the reader is invited to assess for himself. 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