The Good, the True, and the Beautiful

Mark Twain once defined a literary classic as “a book which people praise but don’t read.”  Fortunately, Joseph Malaby Dent, founder of J. M. Dent & Sons, never took that quip to heart.  Over the course of his career he probably did more than any other single individual to inculcate a popular appreciation for the classics—his Everyman’s Library editions, provided …