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The Nuttall Encyclopaedia is an early 20th century encyclopedia, edited by Rev. James Wood. 1913 advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica. ...
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
It has a strong editorial voice, and concerns itself mostly with people and places. It may be the only encyclopedia that has entries for fictional characters from Charles Dickens' books, but at the same time lacks entries for fruit. Entries generally are very short. Charles Dickens used his rich imagination, sense of humour and detailed memories, particularly of his childhood, to enliven his fiction. ...
The title page proclaims this encyclopedia to be "a concise and comprehensive dictionary of general knowledge consisting of over 16,000 terse and original articles on nearly all subjects discussed in larger encyclopædias, and specially dealing with such as come under the categories of history, biography, geography, literature, philosophy, religion, science, and art". In 2004, Project Gutenberg published a version of the 1907 edition. Project Gutenberg (PG) was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books. ...
Wikipedia:Nuttall There is currently a Wikipedia project (Wikipedia:Nuttall_Encyclopedia_topics) that is making sure that Wikipedia has articles on all of the topics covered by Nuttall, including integrating the Nuttall content into Wikipedia. |