About the author

Walter John Clark is an author about whom publicly available information is limited; details such as nationality, birth and death dates, and educational background have not been reliably recorded. Based on the single work held in the collection, he wrote International Language, Past, Present & Future, a book discussing the history, current state, and future of international languages. The subject matter places it in the genre of general language studies and language planning, addressing the question of an international lingua franca rather than fictional writing. Such works are typically aimed at readers interested in language history, the auxiliary language movement, and cross-linguistic communication, and tend toward factual exposition and the tracing of historical developments. Because the author's output is small and external sources are scarce, a full assessment of his style and scholarly influence remains difficult; he may be regarded as a recorder and discusser of international language issues.

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Project Gutenberg