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- # Walnut Creek CDROM Basic Web Page Form
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- CATEGORY = Education
- DISC_TITLE = Project Gutenberg
- SKEW = guten
- HEAD_LINE = 753 works of literature, historical documents. All in plain ASCII text.
- PRICE = $39.95
- SUBSCRIBE = $24.95
- BBS_READY = YES
- MONTH = 02
- YEAR = 1997
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- http://www.cdrom.com/pub/gutenberg - The Gutenberg Archive
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- ------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION
- The Project Gutenberg CDROM is your electronic library of classical and
- historical documents. This collection represents 753 of the world's most
- commonly used and referenced works of literature. With one disc you'll
- replace hundreds of bound volumes on your shelf.
-
- You'll enjoy:
- <UL>
- <LI>Classic literature: Alice in Wonderland, Moby Dick, Wizard of OZ & many more.
- <LI>Inaugural speeches from Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, & Bill Clinton.
- <LI>Historical documents: the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
- <LI>Motion pictures and stills of the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
- <LI>Works of famous authors: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Beatrix Potter, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Mark Twain.
- <LI>Reference materials including the CIA World Factbook and Roget+s Thesaurus.
- </UL>
-
- This disc is the perfect tool to help you write school reports, prepare
- speeches, and solve vexing trivia questions. Simply use your favorite word
- processor or text editor to open any of the files in this collection.
-
- This version contains all of the files of the Project Gutenberg Archives
- for 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996. It also comes with easy-to-use
- HTML indices with works sorted by author, title, and subject matter. The
- organization Project Gutenberg encourages the creation and distribution of
- electronic texts.
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- Each document is in plain-vanilla ASCII, so that everyone using anything
- from Apples to Z-80s is able to read them! - Boardwatch
-