PG NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 1996 Please send your feedback directly to Michael S. Hart hart@pobox.com 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. 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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. 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