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**This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for November, 1993**
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Mon Year Title/Author [filename.ext] ##
Oct 1993 The World Factbook, US CIA, 1993 Edition (world93x.xxx) 87
Oct 1993 A Connecticut Yankee, Mark Twain, Wiretap [yanke10x.xxx] 86
Oct 1993 Beasts of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs [Tarzan #3][tarz310x.xxx] 85
Oct 1993 Frankenstein/Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [frank10x.xxx] 84
Oct 1993 Frankenstein/Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [frank10a.xxx] 84a
Sep 1993 From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne [moonxxxx.xxx] 83
Sep 1993 Ivanhoe/Scott/OBI/Wiretap [for US Only] [ivnho10x.xxx] 82
Sep 1993 Return of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs [Tarzan #2][tarz210x.xxx] 81
Sep 1993 The Online World/de Presno [Shareware] [online11.xxx] 80
[WARNING! tarz210 and tarz310 were inadverantly reversed and the October
release labeled tarz210 was really tarz310, the titles were correct, just
not the order in which the books were released. If you keep any catalogs
of our books, please make this correction so people will know that Beasts
of Tarzan was actually THIRD in the series].
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months Tarzan selection was accidentally released last month.
Oct 1993 Beasts of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs [Tarzan #3][tarz310x.xxx] 85
Sep 1993 Return of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs [Tarzan #2][tarz210x.xxx] 81
Aug 1993 Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs[Tarzan#1][tarzn10x.xxx] 78
The above listing is what you should now have.
Mon Year Title/Author [filename.ext] ##
Aug 1993 Terminal Compromise/NetNovel, Win Schartau [termc10x.xxx] 79
Aug 1993 Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs[Tarzan#1][tarzn10x.xxx] 78
Aug 1993 House of 7 Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne [7gabl10x.xxx] 77
Aug 1993 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain/Wiretap[hfinn10x.xxx] 76
Jul 1993 Email 101 by John Goodwin (email025.xxx) 75
Jul 1993 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain/Wiretap (sawyr10x.xxx) 74
Jul 1993 Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (badge10x.xxx) 73
Jul 1993 Thuvia, Maid of Mars [Mars #4] (mmars10x.xxx) 72
Jun 1993 Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau (civil10x.xxx) 71
Jun 1993 What Is Man? Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens] (wman10xx.xxx) 70
Jun 1993 The 32nd Mersenne Prime, Predicted by Mersenne (32pri10x.xxx) 69
Jun 1993 Warlord of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs [Mars #3] (wmars10x.xxx) 68
May 1993 Black Experience, Norman Coombs (blexp10x.xxx) 67
May 1993 The Dawn of Amateur Radio, Norman F. Joly (radio10x.xxx) 66
May 1993 The First 100,000 Prime Numbers (prime10x.xxx) 65
May 1993 Gods of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs [Mars #2] (gmars10x.xxx) 64
Apr 1993 The Number "e" [Natural Log] (ee610xxx.xxx) 63
Apr 1993 A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs [Mars #1] (pmars10x.xxx) 62
Apr 1993 The Communist Manifesto,Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels(manif10x.xxx) 61
Apr 1993 The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy (scarp10x.xxx) 60
Mar 1993 Descartes' Reason Discourse, Rene Descartes (dcart10x.xxx) 59
Mar 1993 Paradise Regained, John Milton (rgain10x.xxx) 58
Mar 1993 Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, Traditional (alad10xx.xxx) 57
Mar 1993 NREN, by Jean Armour Polly (nren210x.xxx) 56
Feb 1993 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum (wizoz10x.xxx) 55
Feb 1993 The Marvelous Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum (ozland10.xxx) 54
Feb 1993 LOC Workshop on Etexts, US LIbrary of Congress (locet10x.xxx) 53
Feb 1993 The Square Root of Two (2sqrt10x.xxx) 52
Jan 1993 Anne of the Island, Lucy Maud Montgomery [GG#3] (iland10x.xxx) 51
Jan 1993 Pi (circumference/diameter) (pimil10x.xxx) 50
Jan 1993 Surfing the Internet, Jean Armour Polly (Surf10xx.xxx) 49
Jan 1993 The World Factbook, US CIA, 1992 Edition (world192.xxx) 48
Jan 1993 Clinton's Inaugural Address, US Pres Bill Clinton (clintonx.xxx) na
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Jan 1992 Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of (duglas10.xxx) 47
Jan 1992 O Pioneers! Willa Cather (opion10x.xxx) 46
Feb 1992 1991 CIA World Factbook, US CIA, 1991 Edition (world91a.xxx) 45
Feb 1992 Paradise Lost (Raben) [originally in all CAPS (plrabn11.xxx) 44
Mar 1992 Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy [Tess] (crowd13x.xxx) 43
Mar 1992 Aesop's Fables (Advantage) [Our Second Version] (aesopa10.xxx) 42
Apr 1992 Data From the 1990 Census, US Census Bureau (uscen901.xxx) 41
Apr 1992 New Etext of Bible (KJV) [From many editions] (bible10x.xxx) 40
May 1992 Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy [Three Greek Plays] (oedip10x.xxx) 39
May 1992 Herland (for Mother's Day), Charlotte P. Gilman (hrlnd10x.xxx) 38
Jun 1992 The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (scrlt10x.xxx) 37
Jun 1992 Zen & the Art of Internet), Brendan P. Kehoe (zen10xxx.xxx) 36
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Jul 1992 The Time Machine, H.G. Wells [Herbert George] (timem10x.xxx) 35
Jul 1992 The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells [Herbert George](warw10xx.xxx) 34
Aug 1992 The 1990 US Census (2nd), US Census Bureau (uscen902.xxx) 33
Aug 1992 The Hackers' Dictionary of Computer Jargon (jargn10x.xxx) 32
Sep 1992 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, Ed Krol (hhgi10xx.xxx) 31
Sep 1992 NorthWestNet NUSIRG Internet Guide (nusirg10.xxx) 30
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Oct 1992 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving (sleep10x.xxx) 29
Oct 1992 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde #1 Robert Louis Stevenson (hyde10xx.xxx) 28
Oct 1992 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde #2 Robert Louis Stevenson (hydea10x.xxx) 27
Nov 1992 Song of the Lark, Willa Cather (song10xx.xxx) 26
Nov 1992 Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery [GG#1] (anne11xx.xxx) 25
Dec 1992 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (carol10x.xxx) 24
Dec 1992 Anne of Avonlea, Lucy Maud Montgomery [GG#2] (avon10xx.xxx) 23
Dec 1992 The Gift of the Magi-O Henry (magi10.txt) na
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Apr 1991 1990 CIA World Factbook, The US CIA (world12x.xxx) 19
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1974 The Gettysburg Address (4scorxxx,xxx) 6
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