PG Monthly Newsletter 1996-06-09

PG NEWSLETTER JUNE 1996


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Books Index update from #577 to #608.

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after losing our account at vmd.cso.uiuc.edu, we have burned things up for
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 Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author]    [filename.ext] ###

 A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work.

 Jul 1996 Aeropagitica, by John Milton   [Milton #4]        [areopxxx.xxx] 608
 Jul 1996 The Augsburg Confession, in Latin and in German   [auglgxxx.xxx] 607
 Jul 1996 Indian Why Stories, by Frank B. Linderman         [inwhyxxx.xxx] 606
 Jul 1996 Pellucidar, by Edgar Rice Burroughs ]Borroughs#15][pelluxxx.xxx] 605

 Jul 1996 Gulliver of Mars, by Edwin L. Arnold              [gulvmxxx.xxx] 604
 Jul 1996 Letters of George Borrow    [George Borrow #5]    [ltborxxx.xxx] 603
 Jul 1996 Pharsalia [Civil War], by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus  [pcwarxxx.xxx] 602
 Jul 1996 The Monk, by Matthew Lewis                        [tmonkxxx.xxx] 601

 Jul 1996 Notes From The Underground/Fyodor Dostoyevsky[#1] [notun11x.xxx] 600
 Jul 1996 Notes From The Underground/Fyodor Dostoyevsky[#1] [notunxxx.xxx] 600
 Jul 1996 Vanity Fair, by William Thackeray [Thackeray #1]  [vfairxxx.xxx] 599
 Jul 1996 Heimskringla [Norwegian Kings], by Snorri Sturlson[hmskrxxx.xxx] 598
 Jul 1996 The Story of Burnt Njal  Icelandic   [njalsxxx.xxx] 597

 Jul 1996 Rivers to the Sea, by Sara Teasdale [Teasdale #4] [rivsexxx.xxx] 596
 Jul 1996 The Sisters' Tragedy, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich    [sistrxxx.xxx] 595
 Jul 1996 Twilight Stories, by Various Authors              [twilsxxx.xxx] 594
 Jul 1996 Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant V. 1 [GEM1][swgemxxx.xxx] 593

 Jul 1996 Chinese Nightingale, et al, by Vachel Lindsay [#4][ngalexxx.xxx] 592
 Jul 1996 Flame and Shadow, by Sara Teasdale [Teasdale #3]  [fshadxxx.xxx] 591
 Jul 1996 Robert Louis Stevenson, A Memorial by A. H. Japp  [rlsjpxxx.xxx] 590
 Jul 1996 Catriona (Kidnapped2) by Robt L. Stevenson[RLS#25][ctrnaxxx.xxx] 589

 Jul 1996 Master Humphrey's Clock, by Charles Dickens [CD#5][mhmphxxx.xxx] 588
 Jul 1996 Danny's Own Story, by Don Marquis                 [dsownxxx.xxx] 587
 Jul 1996 Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, et al, Thomas Browne[rmedixxx.xxx] 586
 Jul 1996 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, the Crafts  [runngxxx.xxx] 585

 Jul 1996 Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson                      [ourngxxx.xxx] 584
 Jul 1996 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins [Collins #4] [wwhitxxx.xxx] 583
 Jul 1996 A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories  [BP#2]    [bpstoxxx.xxx] 582
 Jul 1996 Ginx's Baby, A Satire, by Edward Jenkins?         [ginxbxxx.xxx] 581

 Jul 1996 The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens [CD #3-4] [pwprsxxx.xxx] 580
 Jul 1996 The Poems of Sidney Lanier                        [planrxxx.xxx] 579
 Jul 1996 Down With The Cities, by Tadashi NAKASHIMA        [dwtctxxx.xxx] 578C
 Jul 1996 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4 of 16       [sjv04xxx.xxx] 577

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