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Share Link copied Format epub Published May 03, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![When Winter Comes to Main Street](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqnqxkwrma46k2etx13qawxj/cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20261002%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20261002T111804Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=09f119ecb56baf58ca2a5dc5c145fdcb0c88f77ea77865690654bff4dfef9bd9) ## About this work When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton — a public-domain edition published by publica.now. Sample ## Take a look inside The publica.now eBook, When Winter Comes to Main Street, by Grant Martin Overton WHEN WINTER COMES TO MAIN STREET BY GRANT OVERTON AUTHOR OF “THE WOMEN WHO MAKE OUR NOVELS” NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY WHEN WINTER COMES TO MAIN STREET. Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company New York, U. S. A. FOR GEORGE H. DORAN WHO HAD THE IDEA PREFACE I have borrowed my title from two remarkable novels. If Winter Comes, by A. S. M. Hutchinson, was published in the autumn of 1921 by Messrs. Little, Brown & Company of Boston. Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis, was published in the autumn of 1920 by Messrs. Harcourt, Brace & Company of New York. I have not before me the precise figures of the amazing sales of these two books—each passed 350,000—but I make my bow to their authors and to their publishers and to the American public. I bow to the authors for the quality of their work and to the publishers and the public for their recognition of that quality. These two substantial successes confirm my belief that the American public in hundreds of thousands relishes good reading. Without that belief, this book would not have been prepared; but I have prepared it with some confidence that those who relish good reading will be interested in the chapters that follow. As a former book reviewer and literary editor, as an author and, now, as one vitally concerned in book publishing, my interest in books has been fundamentally unchanging—a wish to see more books read and better books to read. From one standpoint, When Winter Comes to Main Street is frankly an advertisement; it deals with Doran books and authors. This is… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fwhen-winter-comes-to-main-street) The sample continues in the full work. [ #classic ](/search?query=classic) [ #public-domain ](/search?query=public-domain) [ #library ](/search?query=library) ## Reviews No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. 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