75 Years of Penguin

AbeBooks: 75 Years of Penguin: "The history of Penguin is almost as interesting as the thousands of titles published by this company over the past 75 years. Step back to 1935 when Allen Lane decided that he wanted to turn book borrowers into book buyers and published the first 10 Penguin books. Each one cost just six pence at a time when hard covers were priced at seven or eight shillings. Those 10 books revolutionized publishing by making great literature very affordable, and kicked off Penguin’s long and illustrious history."