
In 1935, publisher Allen Lane sat on a London railway platform and lamented the lack of decent books. So he decided to take matters into his own hands. With the philosophy that decent contemporary fiction could and should be made accessible to the masses, he set about producing a limited run of handsome paperbacks from some of the leading authors of the day. In less than twelve months, Lane had sold three million copies and started a literary revolution...
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