November Project Gutenberg Newsletter
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Here are the Project Gutenberg Etexts from October, 1996.
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,
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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