[PDF.60cd] The World's Best Books": Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)

The World's Best Books": Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)

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 | #3555833 in Books |  University of Massachusetts Press |  2002-10-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .89 x6.26 x9.44l,.0 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A fascinating insight into America's intellectual life|By Customer|For almost forty years I have been buying titles of the Modern Library from used book stores and flea markets in Germany, the US, Argentina, Canada, Israel and India. This range across continents, beyond the initial target market of the USA shows the importance and influence of the series that claimed to bring| ||This is an excellent and valuable study of the Modern Library -- the most important American reprint series of significant works of literature and thought published in the twentieth century.... The work is solidly researched, intelligently conceived, and very

In October 1930, Macy's department store in New York City used the inexpensive book series "The Modern Library of the World's Best Books" as a loss-leader to draw customers into the store. Selling for only nine cents a copy, the small-format, modern classics attracted crowds of buyers. Businessmen, housewives, students, bohemian intellectuals, and others waited in long lines to purchase affordable hard-bound copies of works by the likes of Tolstoy, Wilde, Joyce, and W...

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