Talkers: With Illustrations
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in the evolution of language etiquette and social-interaction norms
- People needing material for speeches or conversation who wish to draw on classical views of expression
- Students of literature or cultural history studying modern etiquette books and admonitory prose styles
- Casual readers who enjoy illustrated essayistic discussion and browsing at leisure
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking modern communication techniques and practical training manuals
- Readers sensitive to old-style moral admonition and era-bound expressions
- Researchers needing rigorous scholarly citation and systematic theoretical frameworks
Reading tips
- Skim by topic, prioritizing passages with illustrations, and use concrete scenes to understand the author's argumentative direction.
- Keep a pen to mark judgments that clearly differ from contemporary views of communication, and analyze them together after reading.
- Read only one or two sections at a time, comparing the book's views on the measure of conversation with your own daily experience.
- If using it for writing material, excerpt vivid metaphors and examples and ignore the didactic passages.
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 Bate was an English writer about whom little public information survives; neither his birth and death years nor the details of his life can now be reliably established. Judging from his extant works, his interests centred on the meeting ground between natural phenomena and practical craft. His representative work, The Mysteryes of Nature and Art (1634), takes precisely this as its theme, setting the wonders of nature alongside useful techniques. It bears the clear marks of early English popular knowledge writing and was addressed to ordinary readers curious about nature and craft. A second work, Talkers: With Illustrations, is also held in the collection; its title and illustrated format suggest content concerning people's speech, though no reliable sources are available for its background or detailed contents. On the whole, Bate is not an author known for his life story; his significance lies rather in the seventeenth-century English tradition of disseminating knowledge and writing about craft, with works that combine curiosity about the natural world with a practical bent and may be of use to students of early popular literature.
