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Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the ...
The Confidence-Man at Project Gutenberg; The Confidence-Man public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Critical reaction to and a publishing history of The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade from The Life and Works of Herman Melville; Online text of the novel from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
The Signal-Man" is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The story is told from a fictional first-person perspective. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral ...
Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor decided to make the most of ...
Con Man or conman may refer to: Confidence man, a practitioner of confidence tricks; Con Man, an American crime drama film based on the life of Barry Minkow; Con Man, an American comedy web series created by Alan Tudyk; Freelance (Con Man in the United States), a 1971 British thriller film starring Ian McShane
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg [a] (c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press.Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [2] enabled a much faster rate of printing.
The first Bengali translation was made in prose by Nalini Mohan Sanyal in 1939. [1] It was published by Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, with a foreword by the eminent Bengali Scholar Suniti Kumar Chatterjee. However, the work is presently out of print, with the only copy available at the National Library in Kolkata. [2]
McLuhan studies the emergence of what he calls the Gutenberg Man, the subject produced by the change of consciousness wrought by the advent of the printed book. Apropos of his axiom, " The medium is the message ," McLuhan argues that technologies are not simply inventions which people employ but are the means by which people are re-invented.