PG Monthly Newsletter 1996-11

by Michael Cook on November 21, 1996
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PG NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 1996

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Michael S. Hart hart@pobox.com

Books Index update from #681 to #704.

Due to the fact that some are much larger than normal, we have also made
up a few that are smaller than normal to even things out a little.

Coming: The Fall of the Roman Empire, by Gibbon and
Interview with Bruce Sterling on his new book, Holy Fire.

Please see the accompanying note entitled Project
Gutenberg Needs You, for details.

Our Spanish readers may read about us in the latest issues of Information
World en Espanol, we are very interested in doing more books in more languages.

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Project Gutenberg in the January issue of Wired.

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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.

 Oct 1996 The Mansion, By Henry van Dyke [A Short Story]    [tmansxxx.xxx] 704
 Oct 1996 The Lucasta Poems, by Christopher Marlowe         [lcstaxxx.xxx] 703
 Oct 1996 Somebody's Little Girl, by Martha Young           [slgrlxxx.xxx] 702
 Oct 1996 The King of the Golden River, by John Ruskin      [tkogrxxx.xxx] 701
 [These four are short stories and poems]

 Oct 1996 The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens [CD#12][curioxxx.xxx] 700
 Oct 1996 A Child's History of England, Charles Dickens CD11[achoexxx.xxx] 699
 Oct 1996 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, R. L. Stevenson[RLS#33][fleemxxx.xxx] 698
 Oct 1996 The Light Princess, by George MacDonald [GM#2]    [ltprnxxx.xxx] 697

 Oct 1996 The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole [HP#1]   [cotrtxxx.xxx] 696
 Oct 1996 Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Chas Kingsley [glcusxxx.xxx] 695
 Oct 1996 Stories from Everybody's Magazine, 1910           [10evmxxx.xxx] 694
 Oct 1996 The Autobiography of a Quack, by S. Weir Mitchell [auqakxxx.xxx] 693

 Oct 1996 Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Vol X     [10jwrxxx.xxx] 692
 Oct 1996 Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Vol I     [01jwrxxx.xxx] 691
 Oct 1996 Proposed Roads to Freedom, by Bertrand Russell[#1][rfreexxx.xxx] 690
 Oct 1996 The Kreutzer Sonata, et al, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi[krsonxxx.xxx] 689

 Oct 1996 The Goodness of St. Rocque et al, by Alice Dunbar [stroqxxx.xxx] 688
 Oct 1996 A Personal Record, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad #11]  [aprjcxxx.xxx] 687
 Oct 1996 The Treaty of the European Union [Maastricht]     [maastxxx.xxx] 686
 Oct 1996 The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki     [abombxxx.xxx] 685

 Oct 1996 Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War-Some Perspectives[nukwrxxx.xxx] 684
 Oct 1996 The Complete Angler, by Izaak Walton              [tcangxxx.xxx] 683
 Oct 1996 Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula] [Math#15][ctcstxxx.xxx] 682
 Oct 1996 Creatures That Once Were Men, by Maxim Gorky [#1] [crmenxxx.xxx] 681

 Oct 1996 The Golden Threshold, by Sarojini Naidu           [gldthxxx.xxx] 680
 Oct 1996 Poems, by Frances E. W. Harper                    [pfewhxxx.xxx] 679
 Oct 1996 The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens #10 [tcothxxx.xxx] 678
 Oct 1996 Heroes, by Charles Kingsley [Greek Fairy Tales]   [ghrosxxx.xxx] 677

 Oct 1996 The Battle of Life, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#10][batlfxxx.xxx] 676
 Oct 1996 American Notes, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #9]   [amntsxxx.xxx] 675
 Oct 1996 Plutarch's Lives, A. H. Clough, ["Dryden's Trans"][plivsxxx.xxx] 674
 Oct 1996 Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [HTML]  [pgwxzxxx.xxx] 673C 
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