The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 57, December 9,

VariousProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 2.4
Word count
39K words
Chapters
4

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English Originals Other Historical ReappraisalNews CompilationCuriosityDaily ReflectionsIllustrated GuidePopular NarrativeWorld OrderSocial ObservationCross-Cultural ViewYouth Reading

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 57, December 9,Author: Various,Language: English, Class: D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere, Release Date: Jul 3, 2005

Editor's review

This book is a digital reprint of Volume 1, No. 57 (December 9, 1897) of The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, prepared and released by Project Gutenberg. It is not a coherent history book but a periodic current-affairs compilation aimed at young readers of the time, covering news, technological developments, and curiosities from around the world in plain language and short entries. Its value lies in offering today's readers a raw slice for observing the late nineteenth-century international situation and popular tastes in knowledge, especially suited to those studying the form of early popular science periodicals, English news style, or late Victorian social mentality. It need not be read page by page; treat it as a source to browse: notice how editors select and explain distant events, balance amusement with instruction, and what assumptions about the era lie behind advertising-like and didactic phrasing. For general readers it offers the novelty of reading the news as if traveling back in time, but they must tolerate its fragmentary structure and outdated information.

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  1. Read the contents or item headings first, and choose topics that echo today's international热点 for close reading.
  2. Jot down unfamiliar place names and events, and check maps or encyclopedias to build your own background notes.
  3. Compare the wording in the periodical with similar reporting today to sense changes in news language and value judgments.
  4. Read only a few items at a time to avoid fatigue from fragmented information.

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FAQ

Is this book a complete historical work? No. It is one issue of a periodic current-affairs compilation from 1897, made up of short news items, reports, and curiosities in a scattered structure, closer to a magazine than a monograph. Read it as a historical fragment, not a systematic history.
Can I read it without knowing late nineteenth-century history? Yes, but you need to look things up as you go. Many names, places, and events are unfamiliar to contemporary readers; use maps and encyclopedias for background. If you want light entertainment, you may find the information dense and the narrative disconnected.
How difficult is the English? The vocabulary is generally not difficult, as it was aimed at young readers of the time, but sentence patterns and punctuation follow nineteenth-century periodical conventions, and unfamiliar background adds to the difficulty. It suits readers with intermediate English reading ability who are willing to look things up.

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About the author

Various Author

Various is not a real person but a collective attribution used in book cataloging and databases for works with multiple authors, commonly applied to anthologies, compilations, or publications with too many contributors to list individually. On this Chinese book site, this attribution covers as many as 3,387 titles, spanning encyclopedic entries, historical documents, and trial records. Representative works include several volumes of the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the record of the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Available public information is limited: nationality, birth and death dates, and common categories are not clearly recorded, making it difficult to summarize a unified writing style or personal biography. Readers should understand it as a cataloging convention rather than a single author.