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PG NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 1996 Please send your feedback directly to Michael S. Hart [email protected] 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. You may also want to keep an eye out in about a month for the article on Project Gutenberg in the January issue of Wired. Once again we have managed to present 32 files we hope will be of interest to the general population. We have two more months scheduled for 32 per month-then we hope to once again double our production, this time to 64 per month-for each of the 12 months of 1997. While this may appear as an incredible amount of work, the truth is that your volunteers at Project Gutenberg have already spend several months doing books at the rate of 64 per month, during the Spring of 1996 just to insure that in 1997 we would be capable of accomplishing our goals. However, while we were doing this, you may have also heard that most supports for Project Gutenberg from the University of Illinois have been withdrawn and what you may NOT have heard is that this has also been true of the support we have been receiving from Benedictine University [Illinois Benedictine College was their previous name], and also support from Walnut Creed CDROM, who makes and markets the only official Project Gutenberg CDROM has also been less of a support than in previous years. A separate message requesting your individual, college, or corporate support, is accompanying this Newsletter. . .if you are not interested just delete it. We currently have just about #700 volunteers, as is usually the case the book number is approximately the same as the number of volunteers we have. A 1997 production on the schedule we have managed to keep doubling every year should be possible if we receive support on two levels: 1. We will need approximately 800 more volunteers if we are going to produce 800 more Etexts during 1997. 2. We will need approximately $2,000 per month to keep afloat as I am unable to continue funding Project Gutenberg without financial assistance. 3. We could also use some public relations people, if we can get any for the next year. We did manage to get one last year, but AOL stole her away.

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A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work. Oct 1996 The Mansion, By Henry van Dyke [A Short Story] Oct 1996 The Lucasta Poems, by Christopher Marlowe Oct 1996 Somebody's Little Girl, by Martha Young Oct 1996 The King of the Golden River, by John Ruskin [These four are short stories and poems]

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

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The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole [HP#1] Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Chas Kingsley Stories from Everybody's Magazine, 1910 The Autobiography of a Quack, by S. Weir Mitchell

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

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The Goodness of St. Rocque et al, by Alice Dunbar A Personal Record, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad #11] The Treaty of the European Union [Maastricht] The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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

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The Golden Threshold, by Sarojini Naidu Poems, by Frances E. W. Harper The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens #10 Heroes, by Charles Kingsley [Greek Fairy Tales]

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Oct 1996 The Battle of Life, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#10][batlfxxx.xxx] Oct 1996 American Notes, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #9] [amntsxxx.xxx] Oct 1996 Plutarch's Lives, A. H. Clough, ["Dryden's Trans"][plivsxxx.xxx] Oct 1996 Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [HTML] [pgwxzxxx.xxx] This File is 45M unzipped. . .be careful when you download.

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