PG Newsletter 1992-02-20 – New/Old Project Gutenberg Etext

by Michael Cook on February 20, 1992
Newsletters

Project Gutenberg announces Paradise Lost, in our
second version of John Milton's classic.
 
Feb 1992 Paradise Lost (Raben)     (plrabn10.txt)
 
This is the oldest etext known to the project, as
the original etext from which we worked was 1964-
1965, prepared by Joseph Raben. (More information
in the etext.)
 
Books currently available on mrcnext or via mail:
 
Jan 1991 Alice in Wonderland       (alice28x.xxx)
Feb 1991 Through the Looking Glass (lglass15.xxx)
Mar 1991 The Hunting of the Snark  (snark11x.xxx)
Apr 1991 The CIA World Factbook    (world11x.xxx)
May 1991 Moby Dick (From OBI)*     (mobyxxxx.xxx)
Jun 1991 Peter Pan (for US only)** (peter14a.xxx)
Jul 1991 The Book of Mormon        (mormon11.xxx)
Aug 1991 The Federalist Papers     (feder11x.xxx)
Sep 1991 The Song of Hiawatha      (hisong10.xxx)
Oct 1991 Paradise Lost (Boss)      (plboss10.xxx)
Nov 1991 Aesop's Fables            (aesop10x.xxx)
Dec 1991 Roget's Thesaurus         (roget11x.xxx)
*Moby Dick is missing Chapter 72
**Please do not download Peter Pan outside the US
 
1991 books will soon be in mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
cd etext2/1991, and will be deleted from /etext
(Easy instructions:  FTP to mrcnext as anonymous,
then cd etext or cd etext2/1991
 
Jan 1992 Frederick Douglass        (duglas10.xxx)
Jan 1992 O Pioneers!               (opion10x.xxx)
Feb 1992 CIA World Factbook        (world91a.xxx)
(Internally mislabeled as January but replaced at
last minute by O Pioneers to coincide with CBS).
Feb 1992 Paradise Lost (Raben)     (plrabn10.xxx)
 
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