Question 8 Read the following text, and answer the question that follows.

Wonderful Characters: Memoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric
Persons of Every Age and Nation. From the text of Henry Wilson and James
Caulfield. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Sixty-one full-page Engravings of
Extraordinary Persons, 7s.6d.
*** There are so many curious matters discussed in this volume, that any
person who takes it up will not readily lay it down until he has read it
through. The Introduction is almost entirely devoted to a consideration of Pig-
Faced Ladies, and the various stories concerning them.

What is the purpose of the above text?

A:to inform
B:to ridicule
C:to persuade
D:to entertain