Nearly a century later, journalists, novelists, poets and essayists continue to prize the 11th edition as their favorite general reference work, one not meant to be simply used, but to be read with pleasure.ĭenis Boyles tells the amazing story of this atlas of human brilliance, a massive 29-volume, 44-million word anthology of some of the best essays written in English. Its credibility was supreme, its writing fascinating and engaging, sometimes beautiful. It was the last of the great scholarly encyclopedias, the one that brought its post-Victorian readers the world's greatest authorities on practically everything. The opposite of Wikipedia, the EB11, as it is known, is a testament to the value of credentialed expertise. The 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1910-11, is the most famous English-language encyclopedia in history.
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