Fresh Every Hour

Toohey, John Peter, 1880-1946Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 336K words
Chapters: 34

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.Fresh Every Hour by John Peter TooheyAuthor: Toohey, John Peter, 1880-1946,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Aug 6, 2018

Editor's review

Fresh Every Hour is a work by John Peter Toohey (1880–1946), now freely available as a Project Gutenberg ebook, offering readers barrier-free access to a slice of early twentieth-century American literature. Toohey's experience as both playwright and journalist gives his narratives a stage-like quality and a brisk, newsy rhythm, and this work carries on that highly readable style. As a public-domain ebook, its value lies not only in the text itself but also in its role as a vehicle of the early ebook movement—Project Gutenberg was founded by Michael Hart in 1971, and this 2018 edition continues that open-reading tradition. For readers curious about the landscape of American popular literature or interested in public-domain electronic resources, this book offers a light entry point. While reading, it is worth placing it back in the context of early twentieth-century American newspaper and theater culture intertwining, to appreciate that writing stance aimed at ordinary readers and geared toward immediate interest.

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Reading tips

Read the introduction and author information first, then move into the main text to build a sense of the era.
Read in sections, one chapter at a time, consulting contemporaneous American newspaper and cultural materials.
Note unfamiliar expressions while reading the English original to accumulate early twentieth-century usage.
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Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

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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Is this book in Chinese or English?

According to the available information, the book is in English and falls under American and Canadian literature; it is currently offered as an English ebook by Project Gutenberg, with no Chinese translation information available.

What is the background of Project Gutenberg?

Project Gutenberg is the earliest project to offer free ebooks, founded by Michael Hart in 1971. This book's ebook edition was released by that project; it is a public-domain resource and can be read for free.

What confirmed information is there about the author Toohey?

The information shows that John Peter Toohey lived from 1880 to 1946 and is the author of this book. Beyond that, no information is provided about his writing career or list of works, and readers should not extrapolate beyond this book.

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Toohey, John Peter, 1880-1946 Author

John Peter Toohey (1880–1946) is an author about whom little biographical information survives; public records are limited, and his nationality, education, and professional career cannot be reliably confirmed. What can be established is that he wrote Fresh Every Hour, the only work by him held in this collection. Judging from the title and the character of the book, it is popular writing aimed at general readers, emphasizing readability and everyday experience rather than academic theorizing. Because biographical material is scarce, his life and work have received little discussion among scholars and readers, and the book's influence lies mainly in serving as a sample of popular reading of its period. A fuller assessment of Toohey's style and literary standing would depend on further bibliographic information, publication records, and contemporary reviews. Under present conditions, he is best regarded as a minor author known for a single work.