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.:Please note the following changes, corrections and improvements:
The following is being re-indexed to include translator info:
Alcestis, by Euripides 10523
[Translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray]
The following is being re-indexed to correct the author's name ("Ephraim",
not "Epraim"):
Oct 2005 Nathan der Weise, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [?nthnxxx.xxx] 9186
[Language: German]
The following are being re-indexed to include subtitles and supplemental
information:
Oct 1998 Beacon Lights of History, by John Lord [V3 Part 2][32blhxxx.xxx] 1499
[Subtitle: Renaissance and Reformation]
[See also: #10532]
Oct 1998 Beacon Lights of History, by John Lord [V3 Part 1][31blhxxx.xxx] 1498
[Subtitle: The Middle Ages]
[See also: #10531]
The following is being reindexed to clarify the title, and add
supplementary notes:
May 1995 Poems of Rupert Brooke [rupbrxxx.xxx] 262
[Title: The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke]
[Introduction by George Edward Woodberry]
[Biographical note by Margaret Lavington]
The following is being re-posted in an updated 11th Edition, in Unicode
format only:
May 2003 Confucian Analects, by James Legge [cnfnlxxx.xxx] 4094
[Language: English and Chinese]
[Unicode in cnfnl11.txt/.zip]
The following have been re-posted in an improved 11th Edition:
Oct 2003 The Farm That Won't Wear Out, by Cyril G. Hopkins [frmwtxxx.xxx] 4525
Aug 2000 How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett [24hrsxxx.xxx] 2274
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX, by Various 10550
[Editors: Robert Dodsley and W. Carew Hazlitt]
[Contents:
How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad
The Return from Parnassus
Wily Beguiled
Lingua
The Miseries of Enforced Marriage]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/5/10550 ]
[Files: 10550.txt; 10550-8.txt]
A Romance of the Republic, by Lydia Maria Francis Child 10549
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/4/10549 ]
[Files: 10549.txt; 10549.zip; 10549-8.txt; 10549-8.zip; ]
The Westcotes, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 10548
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/4/10548 ]
[Files: 10548.txt; 10548.zip; 10548-8.txt; 10548-8.zip; ]
Topsy-Turvy, by Jules Verne 10547
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/4/10547 ]
[Files: 10547-h.htm]
So Runs the World, by Henryk Sienkiewicz 10546
[Translated by S. C. de Soissons]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/4/10546 ]
[Files: 10546.txt; 10546-8.txt]
The Sea Lions, by James Fenimore Cooper 10545
[Subtitle: The Lost Sealers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/4/10545 ]
[Files: 10545.txt; 10545-8.txt; 10545-h.htm]
Punchinello, Vol. 2, No. 37, December 10, 1870, by Various 10544
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/4/10544 ]
[Files: 10544.txt; 10544-8.txt; 10544-h.htm]
Norwegian Life, by Ethlyn T. Clough 10543
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/4/10543 ]
[Files: 10543.txt; 10543-8.txt]
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig", by William Hope Hodgson 10542
[Subtitle: Being an account of their Adventures in the Strange places
of the Earth, after the foundering of the good ship Glen Carrig through
striking upon a hidden rock in the unknown seas to the Southward; as
told by John Winterstraw, Gent., to his son James Winterstraw, in the
year 1757, and by him committed very properly and legibly to manuscript.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/4/10542 ]
[Files: 10542.txt; 10542.zip; ]
Children's Classics In Dramatic Form, by Augusta Stevenson 10541
[Subtitle: A Reader for the Fourth Grade]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/4/10541 ]
[Files: 10541.txt; 10541.zip; 10541-8.txt; 10541-8.zip; 10541-h.htm;
10541-h.zip; ]
Mother Carey's Chickens, by Kate Douglas Wiggin 10540
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/4/10540 ]
[Files: 10540.txt; 10540.zip; ]
In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda, by Theo. Stephenson Browne 10539
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/3/10539 ]
[Files: 10539.txt; 10539.zip; 10539-r.rtf; 10539-r.zip; 10539-h.htm;
10539-h.zip; ]
The Canterbury Pilgrims, by M. Sturt and E. C. Oakden 10538
[Subtitle: Being Chaucer's Tales Retold for Children]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/3/10538 ]
[Files: 10538.txt; 10538.zip; 10538-8.txt; 10538-8.zip; ]
The Governors, by E. Phillips Oppenheim 10537
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/3/10537 ]
[Files: 10537.txt; 10537.zip; 10537-8.txt; 10537-8.zip; ]
Audio: Project Gutenberg Fanfare, by Joel A. Erickson 10536
[MP3 audio]
[Link: http://gutenberg.net/1/0/5/3/10536 ]
[Files: 10536-m.mp3]
Jingle Bells, by John Pierpont 10535
[Subtitle: One Horse Open Sleigh]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/3/10535 ]
[Files: 10535.txt, 10535.zip, 10535.mid, 10535.mp3, 10535.ly,
10353-frontis.eps, 10535-book.tex, 10535.10535-frontis.jpg]
The Double Traitor , by E. Phillips Oppenheim 10534
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/3/10534 ]
[Files: 10534.txt; 10534.zip; 10534-8.txt; 10534-8.zip; ]
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VII, by John Lord 10533
[Subtitle: Great Women]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/3/10533 ]
[Files: 10533.txt; 10533.zip; 10533-8.txt; 10533-8.zip; 10533-h.htm;
10533-h.zip; ]
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI, by John Lord 10532
[Subtitle: Renaissance and Reformation]
[See also: #1499, which is based on an earlier source]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/3/10532 ]
[Files: 10532.txt; 10532.zip; 10532-8.txt; 10532-8.zip; 10532-h.htm;
10532-h.zip; ]
Beacon Lights of History, Volume V, by John Lord 10531
[Subtitle: The Middle Ages]
[See also: #1498, which is based on an earlier source]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/3/10531 ]
[Files: 10531.txt; 10531.zip; 10531-8.txt; 10531-8.zip; 10531-h.htm;
10531-h.zip; ]
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