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  2. Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Matthew Gregory Lewis - Wikipedia

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    Matthew Gregory Lewis (9 July 1775 – 14 or 16 May 1818) [1] was an English novelist and dramatist, whose writings are often classified as "Gothic horror". He was frequently referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his 1796 Gothic novel The Monk.

  4. The Monk - Wikipedia

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    The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796 across three volumes. Written early in Lewis's career, it was published before he turned twenty, and he withheld his name from the first edition. It tells the story of a virtuous monk who gives into his lustful urges, setting off a chain of events that leave him ...

  5. Scriptorium - Wikipedia

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    The Rule of Saint Benedict does explicitly call for monks to have ready access to books during two hours of compulsory daily reading and during Lent, when each monk is to read a book in its entirety. [31] Thus each monastery was to have its own extensive collection of books, to be housed either in armarium (book chests) or a more traditional ...

  6. The Smoky God - Wikipedia

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    The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is a book presented as a true account written by Willis George Emerson in 1908, which describes the adventures of Olaf Jansen, a Norwegian sailor who sailed with his father through an entrance to the Earth's interior at the North Pole.

  7. Not just a book: What is a Gutenberg Bible? And why is it ...

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    Individual names, birth dates, details that reflect a personal story behind. “A Bible is now sort of a book on the shelf,” McQuillen said. “But at one point, this was a very personal object”.

  8. Guibert of Nogent - Wikipedia

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    The Deeds of God through the Franks, e-text from Project Gutenberg. Translated by Robert Levine 1997. Books. Paul J. Archambault (1995). A Monk's Confession: The Memoirs of Guibert of Nogent. ISBN 0-271-01481-4; John Benton, ed. (1970). Self and Society in Medieval France: The Memoirs of Abbot Guibert of Nogent. A revised edition of the 1925 C ...

  9. Yoshida Kenkō - Wikipedia

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    Painting of Yoshida Kenkō by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Edo period, mid 1840s. Kenkō was probably born around 1283, as the son of an administration official. Forged documents by the Yoshida Shinto authorities claimed that his original name was Urabe Kaneyoshi (卜部 兼好), and that his last name was later changed to Yoshida (吉田); all of this was recently demonstrated to be false, according to ...