The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 5, February 3,

VariousProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 2.0

Word count: 63K words
Chapters: 7

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. 2, No. 5, February 3,Author: Various,Language: English, Class: D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere, Release Date: Sep 7, 2006

Editor's review

This is a weekly current-affairs compilation published around 1900, prepared as a free electronic text by Project Gutenberg. Its value lies not in news timeliness but in its role as a historical slice: readers can observe how world events were explained to ordinary readers of that era through its language, sections, and narrative style. As public-domain material, it is suitable for understanding the form of early popular current-affairs publications and for textual analysis, such as headline wording, the boundary between fact and commentary, and the tone addressed to young readers. It should be noted that the material identifies only the volume, issue, and publication date, without providing specific article contents, so one should not expect systematic historical exposition. Read it as a sample of historical source material rather than an authoritative history book; facts and views it contains are best checked against modern historical scholarship. The electronic edition is easy to search by keyword and suitable for excerpting and comparative reading.

Who it's for

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FAQ

Can this material be used as a reliable historical reference book?

It is not advisable to use it alone as an authoritative reference. It is a current-affairs compilation of its time, reflecting the narrative perspective and information level of that period; it should be checked against modern historical scholarship, and a distinction should be made between factual statements and commentary.

Why is the content presented in English?

The material shows that the book is an English-language publication released by Project Gutenberg. It is intended for English-language readers, and reading it requires some ability to read English newspapers and periodicals; old-fashioned expressions can be resolved with a dictionary.

What is it suitable for researching?

It is suitable for observing the section structure, language style, and narrative strategies of early popular current-affairs publications, and can also serve as public-domain text for excerpting and comparative reading, but it is not suitable as a systematic history textbook.

Do I need to understand all the background before reading?

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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.