PG Monthly Newsletter 1994-09

by Michael Cook on September 11, 1994
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PG NEWSLETTER
SEPTEMBER 1994

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Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author]         [filename.ext] ###

Aug 1994 Wild Justice, by Ruth M. Sprague                  [wildj10x.xxx] 152C
Aug 1994 Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy   [Hardy #5]    [jude10xx.xxx] 153
Aug 1994 The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells  [silap10x.xxx] 154
Aug 1994 The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins                  [mston10x.xxx] 155
Aug 1994 Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, New Version in Stereo [lvb5s10a.zip] 156C
Aug 1994 Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster [Twain Grandneice][dlleg10x.xxx] 157
Aug 1994 Emma, by Jane Austen [Fourth Jane Austen Etext]   [emma10xx.xxx] 158
Aug 1994 The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells       [dmoro10x.xxx] 159
Aug 1994 The Awakening & Other Short Stories by Kate Chopin[awakn10x.xxx] 160

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