The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg

UnknownProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

2.6

Word count: 81K words
Chapters: 9

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 Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg by UnknownAuthor: Unknown,Language: English, Class: PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres, Release Date: Apr 6, 2009

Editor's review

The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg is a short, anonymously authored English picture book, made available as a free electronic edition by Project Gutenberg. It belongs to juvenile literature and depicts the strange animal figures of the Wurttemberg region in a light, playful style, carrying the humor and imagination of early illustrated reading matter; it serves as a sample of nineteenth-century English children's entertainment. The text is concise, and the pictures and words set each other off to good effect. The reading threshold is low, so it can serve as easy extensive reading for English learners, and it also allows researchers to observe how Project Gutenberg preserves and disseminates public-domain children's literature. Read it in a spirit of idle amusement and savor the exaggeration and innocence peculiar to old reading matter; if you use it for research, note its version source and original textual form. On the whole, this is a small book for casual browsing rather than deep reading.

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Read the text through first, then look at the illustrations and compare where the humor lies in the interplay of word and image.
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FAQ

Is this book suitable for children?

The original is aimed at young readers and consists of comical animal descriptions with strong entertainment value, but the language is nineteenth-century English, which makes independent reading difficult for young children; reading with an adult or using it as English-learning material is recommended.

Does the book contain a complete story plot?

According to the available information, it is a short illustrated book in the juvenile literature category, consisting mainly of images of comical creatures and brief narration rather than a full-length novel with a complete structure; readers should approach it as light browsing.

Why is the electronic edition marked 2019?

2019 should be the year Project Gutenberg prepared and released this electronic text, not the year the original book was first published; the original text is earlier, and the available information does not give specific first-publication details, so the version source should be stated when citing it.

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Unknown Author

"Unknown" is not the real name of a particular author but a general label used in book cataloging and publishing for works whose authorship is unidentified or anonymous. Public information is limited, and neither nationality nor dates of birth and death can be verified. The collection contains 118 titles issued under this name, spanning a wide range of subjects: Icelandic sagas such as The Story of Burnt Njal and The Saga of Grettir the Strong, the Middle High German epic Das Nibelungenlied, the Old English religious verse manuscript Codex Junius 11, the Italian Renaissance comedy Gl'ingannati, widely circulated tales such as The Only True Mother Goose Melodies and Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, and a treatise on conjuring, Hocus Pocus Junior. These are mostly editions or translations of folklore, epics, and early drama, forming a cross-linguistic, cross-period compilation that offers readers various facets of the European narrative tradition.