Knowledge for the Time
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Scholars of literature and history interested in nineteenth-century English reference works and knowledge classification
- Learners who need English public-domain texts for translation or reading practice
- Readers who enjoy browsing old-style encyclopedic entries and picking up odd facts
- Those studying Victorian popular reading and publishing culture
Not a good fit for
- Beginners seeking systematic modern disciplinary knowledge
- Readers with weak English reading skills who need Chinese annotations
- Readers looking for plot or continuous narrative
Reading tips
- First skim the contents and category headings, then sample three to five entries that interest you to gauge the difficulty of the style.
- Keep a notebook to excerpt old-fashioned expressions and knowledge entries as accumulated English corpus material.
- When you come across conclusions tied to their era, note them and compare with modern common knowledge rather than accepting them directly.
- There is no need to read from beginning to end; browse by topic over several sessions, keeping each to about half an hour.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
John Timbs (1801-1875) was an English author. Details of his life, such as his education and professional career, are limited in publicly available sources, but nine of his works survive, focusing on the curious side of English social life, science and culture. He excelled at gathering oddities and anecdotes from daily life and history. His representative works include English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, which portrays a wide range of characters; the two-volume Club Life of London, which records the manners of social circles; Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present and Curiosities of Science, Past and Present, which show his broad interest in customs, science and the natural world; and Things to be Remembered in Daily Life and Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists, which continue this miscellany style. His writing is known for its rich material and easy tone, preserving a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century English society and culture for later readers.
