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The Project Gutenberg eBook, When Winter Comes to Main Street, by Grant Martin Overton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: When Winter Comes to Main Street Author: Grant Martin Overton Release Date: November 1, 2008 [eBook #27116] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHEN WINTER COMES TO MAIN STREET*** E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 27116-h.htm or 27116-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/1/1/27116/27116-h/27116-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/1/1/27116/27116-h.zip) 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, no
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