PG Monthly Newsletter 1996-12-03

by Michael Cook on December 3, 1996
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PG NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 1996

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Books Index update from #705 to #736.

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This is probabaly the last Newsletter that is going to the OLD server; at
gutnberg@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu
. . .if you want to delete yourself . . .
there is probably no need, but you should ask me about listproc@ prairienet.org
if you haven't changes your subscription.

Well, my link to uiarchive is finally back up, so the November Etexts should
be on all our major sites, as below, by the time you see this. I am not sure
when the international sites do their mirroring but the US sites should all
be ready to go.

My apologies, many of our links, drive, and computers have been down, all
week long.

My apologies, also, for the fact that the CBC told me my interview would
be on the air on Thanksgiving [Canadien OR American]. . .but they JUST called
and told me it would be on the CBC and PRI tonite at 7:00 PM. . .we get PRI
on PBS. . .Tuesday. . .December 3, 1996.

[Canadian Broadcasting Company/Corporation]
[Public Radio International]
[Public Broadcasting Service/System]

We shall see/hear.

Wired also called today, they now say we are in the February Wired which
should go on the stands in early January. Around page 90.

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of good wishes, and offers of several more computer sites on which to post
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roof over the head of this particular computer, and its cousins, along with
myself . . .might be on the order of having a snowball fight in the nether
regions.

We received about enough money to keep us running for a week.

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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.

 Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V6 [6dfrexxx.xxx] 736
 Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V5 [5dfrexxx.xxx] 735
 Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V4 [4dfrexxx.xxx] 734
 Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V3 [3dfrexxx.xxx] 733
 Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V2 [2dfrexxx.xxx] 732
 Nov 1996 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon V1 [1dfrexxx.xxx] 731
 Nov 1996 Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #13]    [olivrxxx.xxx] 730
 Nov 1996 Hackers/Computer Revolution Heroes, by Steven Levy[hckrsxxx.xxx] 729C
 Nov 1996 Emile Zola, by William Dean Howells [howells #5]  [ezolaxxx.xxx] 728
 Nov 1996 The Star-Spangled Banner, by John Carpenter       [stsbpxxx.xxx] 727
 Nov 1996 Psychological Counter-Current by Howells [WDH #4] [pccmfxxx.xxx] 726
 Nov 1996 Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles #2 [moiaixxx.xxx] 725
 Nov 1996 The Man of Letters as a Man of Business [Howells3][tmlmbxxx.xxx] 724
 Nov 1996 Henry James, Jr., by William Dean Howells [WDH#2] [jimjrxxx.xxx] 723
 Nov 1996 James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist, by J.C. Ridpath [jotisxxx.xxx] 722
 Nov 1996 The Birds' Christmas Carol, Kate Douglas Wiggin #2[tbsccxxx.xxx] 721
 Nov 1996 Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad [Conrad #12]     [lmyerxxx.xxx] 720
 Nov 1996 Plays of Wm.E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson [RLS #34][tpohsxxx.xxx] 719
 Nov 1996 Tono Bungay, by H. G. Wells [H. G. Wells #6]      [tonobxxx.xxx] 718
 Nov 1996 Chita: A Memory of Last Island, by Lafcadio Hearn [chitaxxx.xxx] 717
 Nov 1996 The Cruise of the Jasper B., by Don Marquis [#3]  [jsprbxxx.xxx] 716
 Nov 1996 Moon Endureth [Tales/Fancies], by John Buchan [#5][ndrthxxx.xxx] 715
 Nov 1996 Bobbsey Twins in the Country, by Laura Lee Hope #1[tbticxxx.xxx] 714
 Nov 1996 Memoirs of Popular Delusions V2, by Charles MacKay[2ppdlxxx.xxx] 713
 Nov 1996 Thomas Jefferson, by Edward S. Ellis              [tjeffxxx.xxx] 712
 Nov 1996 Allan Quatermain, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #1]    [allnqxxx.xxx] 711
 Nov 1996 Love of Life and other stories by Jack London [#4][llifexxx.xxx] 710
 Nov 1996 The Princess and Curdie, by George MacDonald[GM#4][prcurxxx.xxx] 709
 Nov 1996 The Princess and the Goblin, by George MacDonald 3[prgobxxx.xxx] 708
 Nov 1996 Raffles, Further Adventures, by E.W. Hornung [#2] [raflsxxx.xxx] 707
 Nov 1996 The Amateur Cracksman, by E.W. Hornung [Raffles#1][amatcxxx.xxx] 706
 Nov 1996 The Roadmender, by Margt [Michael Fairless] Barber[rmendxxx.xxx] 705

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