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Michael Hart
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for June, 1996
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Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ###
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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 <Njal's Saga> 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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