The World's Best Books: Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library

by Jay Satterfield

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1558497919

ISBN13:9781558497917

Release Date:December 2010

Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.83 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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