Modern Library

The Modern Library is an American publishing company. Initiated during 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright as an imprint of their publishing company Boni & Liveright, it was purchased in 1925 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. Random House began during 1927 as a subsidiary of the Modern Library, but eventually became the parent company.

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