Thread Name: modern library purpose , or what they had to do to succeed. From: "Anthony and Christine" <acpertusi@removed> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:14:17 -0600 my name is anthony pertusi and I submit the following: In reading all of the comments, and many being critical of the poor quality of the books being manufactured and distributed, other ridiculing the cheap paper and cover material being used, the obscure authors chosen for publication, the rampant editorial and production errors that makes a joke out of the word anomaly, I get the sense that we have lost the original purpose of the modern library,and to refresh memories here is a typical blurp from many of the pre-1939 books:(which I have edited to make the point) "the modern library puts into your home the greatest books treasures of the past and present in convenient, inexpensive form and in the modern library you will find many books that you have always wanted to read, books that belong in the library of every cultured person, but many of these famous titles cost from $2.00 to $10.00 apiece in their original edition or were available previously only in expensive sets, but you can now obtain them, complete and unabriged, in handy, compact volumes, at only a small outlay" so,of course , this was the primary purpose of the modern library, to get great books into the hands of the not so rich by creating a cheap product so that great authors could be read by masses of people . ------------------------------------- From: GOODBOOKS@removed> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:52:02 -0700 (PDT) Well stated Anthony!! However,when one sees some of the ebay high bids on ML books one can only say. What started as a poor man's pleasure has now become a rich man's passion. -------------------------------------