Dover Thrift Editions are a series of paperback books published by Dover Publications starting in the 1990s. Thrift editions are printed economically and sold to consumers at a low price such as $1.00 to $2.50 in the United States, and £1.99 to £3.50 in the United Kingdom. Longer works are published as Dover Giant Thrift Editions and sold at about $5.00. Titles and authors are wide-ranging, but most are classic literature, drama and poetry that is in the public domain. Some of the major works published include authors like Mary Shelley, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe.
Many schools use these editions due to their low cost.
Famous quotes containing the words thrift and/or edition:
“Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors. Gulliver’s Travels, with a minimum of expurgation, has become a children’s book; a new illustrated edition is produced every Christmas. That’s what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)