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[Full Title: The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters]
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Oct 2000 The Story of Wellesley, by Florence Converse [wlslyxxx.xxx] 2362
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Nov 2005 Audio: Youth, Joseph Conrad [youthxxx.mp3] 9361C
Nov 2005 Audio: Within the Tides, Joseph Conrad [wthntxxx.mp3] 9360C
Nov 2005 Audio: Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad [wstysxxx.mp3] 9359C
Nov 2005 Audio: Victory, Joseph Conrad [vcty1xxx.mp3] 9358C
Nov 2005 Audio: Typhoon, Joseph Conrad [typhnxxx.mp3] 9357C
Nov 2005 Audio: 'Twixt Land & Sea, Joseph Conrad [twxlsxxx.mp3] 9356C
Nov 2005 Audio: The Rescue, Joseph Conrad [trscuxxx.mp3] 9355C
Nov 2005 Audio: Tales of Unrest, Joseph Conrad [tnrstxxx.mp3] 9354C
Nov 2005 Audio: The Mirror of the Sea, Joseph Conrad [tmotsxxx.mp3] 9353C
Nov 2005 Audio: End of the Tether, Joseph Conrad [tethrxxx.mp3] 9352C
Nov 2005 Audio: The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad [ssharxxx.mp3] 9351C
Nov 2005 Audio: The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad [shlinxxx.mp3] 9350C
Nov 2005 Audio: A Set of Six, Joseph Conrad [seto6xxx.mp3] 9349C
Nov 2005 Audio: Some Reminiscences, Joseph Conrad [rmnisxxx.mp3] 9348C
Nov 2005 Audio: An Outcast of the Islands, Joseph Conrad [outcixxx.mp3] 9347C
Nov 2005 Audio: Notes on Life and Letters, Joseph Conrad [ntlflxxx.mp3] 9346C
Nov 2005 Audio: Nostromo, Joseph Conrad [nstrmxxx.mp3] 9345C
Nov 2005 Audio: Almayer's Folly, Joseph Conrad [lmyerxxx.mp3] 9344C
Nov 2005 Audio: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad [hdarkxxx.mp3] 9343C
Nov 2005 Audio: Falk, Joseph Conrad [falk1xxx.mp3] 9342C
Nov 2005 Audio: Chance, Joseph Conrad [chancxxx.mp3] 9341C
Nov 2005 Audio: The Arrow of Gold, Joseph Conrad [argldxxx.mp3] 9340C
Nov 2005 Audio: A Personal Record, Joseph Conrad [aprjcxxx.mp3] 9339C
Nov 2005 Audio: The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad [agentxxx.mp3] 9338C
Nov 2005 Audio: Amy Foster, Joseph Conrad [afostxxx.mp3] 9337C
Nov 2005 Audio: To-morrow, Joseph Conrad [2mrowxxx.mp3] 9336C
Nov 2005 Fabeln und Erzaehlungen, by Christian F. Gellert [?fablxxx.xxx] 9335
[Full author: Christian Fuerchtegott Gellert]
[Language: German]
Nov 2005 The Spectator, Volume 1, by Addison and Steele [?spt1xxx.xxx] 9334
[Full author: Joseph Addison and Richard Steele]
[Volume 1 of 3, includes issues 1-202]
[Also posted: HTML in 8spt110h.htm; illustrated HTML in 8spt110h.zip]
Nov 2005 Johnny Bear, by E. T. Seton [?jbarxxx.xxx] 9333
[Subtitle:And Other Stories From Lives of the Hunted]
Contents:
Johnny Bear
Tito: The Story Of The Coyote That Learned How
Why The Chickadee Goes Crazy Once A Year
Nov 2005 Georgie's Present, by Miss Brightwell [gprstxxx.xxx] 9332
[Subtitle: Tales of Newfoundland]
Nov 2005 The Hunted Outlaw, by Anonymous [?houtxxx.xxx] 9331
[Subtitle: Donald Morrison, The Canadian Rob Roy]
Nov 2005 Biography of a Grizzly, by Ernest Seton-Thompson [?grizxxx.xxx] 9330
Nov 2005 The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys,byGulielma Zollinger [twocbxxx.xxx] 9329
[HTML version in twocb10h.htm and twocb10h.zip]
[HTML zip file includes 21 excellent images]
Nov 2005 Cleveland Past and Present, by Maurice Joblin [?clevxxx.xxx] 9328
[Subtitle: Its Representative Men Comprising Biographical Sketches of
Pioneer Settlers and Prominent Citizens]
[Also posted HTML - 8clev10h.zip and 8clev10h.htm]
Nov 2005 Die zaertlichen Schwestern,by Christian F. Gellert[?zschxxx.xxx] 9327
[Full author: Christian Fuerchtegott Gellert] [Language: German]
Nov 2005 Gespraeche fuer Freimaurer, by Gotthold E. Lessing[?gespxxx.xxx] 9326
[Full author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing] [Language: German]
Nov 2005 Der Freigeist, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [?frigxxx.xxx] 9325
[Language: German]
Nov 2005 Roden's Corner, by Henry Seton Merriman [#10][?rodnxxx.xxx] 9324
Nov 2005 Foliage: Various Poems, by William H. Davies [folgexxx.xxx] 9323
Nov 2005 Nation in a Nutshell, by George Makepeace Towle [?nnutxxx.xxx] 9322
Nov 2005 Tales And Novels, Vol. 8, by Maria Edgeworth [#11][?tal8xxx.xxx] 9321
Contents:
Patronage (concluded)
Comic Dramas: Love and Law
Leonora
Letters of Julia and Caroline
Nov 2005 Doctor of the Old School, Complete, by Ian Mclaren[drmc6xxx.xxx] 9320
Nov 2005 A Doctor of the Old School, Vol. 5, by Ian Mclaren[drmc5xxx.xxx] 9319
Nov 2005 A Doctor of the Old School, Vol. 4, by Ian Mclaren[drmc4xxx.xxx] 9318
Nov 2005 A Doctor of the Old School, Vol. 3, by Ian Mclaren[drmc3xxx.xxx] 9317
Nov 2005 A Doctor of the Old School, Vol. 2, by Ian Mclaren[drmc2xxx.xxx] 9316
Nov 2005 A Doctor of the Old School, Vol. 1, by Ian Mclaren[drmc1xxx.xxx] 9315
[Illustrated by Frederick C. Gordon]
[Also posted illustrated HTML - drmc?10h.zip only]
[Complete html file 8mb; the split files about 2mb each]
Nov 2005 The Calling Of Dan Matthews, by Harold Bell Wright[clgdmxxx.xxx] 9314
Nov 2005 Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew, by J. Peabody [?ogrkxxx.xxx] 9313
[Author's Full Name: Josephine Preston Peabody]
Nov 2005 From Whose Bourne, by Robert Barr [?fwbrxxx.xxx] 9312
Nov 2005 Hetty's Strange History, by Anonymous [?hetyxxx.xxx] 9311
Nov 2005 Casanova's Homecoming, by Arthur Schnitzler [?cshmxxx.xxx] 9310
[Tr.: Eden and Cedar Paul]
Nov 2005 In a Steamer Chair And Other Stories, Robert Barr [?stchxxx.xxx] 9309
Contents:
In A Steamer Chair
Mrs Tremain
Share And Share Alike
An International Bow
A Ladies' Man
A Society For The Reformation Of Poker Players
The Man Who Was Not On The Passenger List
The Terrible Experience Of Plodkins
A Case Of Fever
How The Captain Got His Steamer Out
My Stowaway
The Purser's Story
Miss Mcmillan
Nov 2005 NY at Louisiana Purch. Expo, by DeLancey M. Ellis [?nylexxx.xxx] 9308
[Full title: New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904]
[Subtitle: Report of the New York State Commission]
Nov 2005 Life: Its True Genesis, by R. W. Wright [?litgxxx.xxx] 9307
[7-bit version in 7litg10.txt/.zip; Unicode version in 8litg10u.txt/.zip]
[HTML version in 8litg10h.htm and 8litg10h.zip]
Nov 2005 Aesthetic as Science of Expression,Benedetto Croce[?asthxxx.xxx] 9306
[Full title: Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic]
[Translated from the Italian by Douglas Ainslie]
Nov 2005 One Day's Courtship, by Robert Barr [?dcrtxxx.xxx] 9305
Nov 2005 Initiation into Philosophy, by Emile Faguet [#2][?inphxxx.xxx] 9304
[Translated from the French by Sir Homer Gordon]
Nov 2005 Post-Augustan Poetry, by H.E. Butler [?pagpxxx.xxx] 9303
[Subtitle: From Seneca to Juvenal]
Nov 2005 Nana a Milano, by Cletto Arrighi [?nnmlxxx.xxx] 9302
[Author AKA: Carlo Righetti]
[Language: Italian]
Nov 2005 Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, by George MacDonald [?bboyxxx.xxx] 9301
[Also posted illustrated HTML - 8bboy10h.zip; and 8bboy10h.htm]
Nov 2005 Jennie Baxter, Journalist, by Robert Barr [?bxtrxxx.xxx] 9300
Nov 2005 Italian Letters, Vols. I and II,William Godwin[#3][?itltxxx.xxx] 9299
[Subtitle: The History of the Count de St. Julian]
Nov 2005 Life and Death of Harriett Frean, by May Sinclair [?frenxxx.xxx] 9298
Nov 2005 The Orange-Yellow Diamond, by J. S. Fletcher [#2][?orngxxx.xxx] 9297
Nov 2005 Clarissa, Volume 1 of 9, by Samuel Richardson [#3][clar1xxx.xxx] 9296
[Subtitle: History of a Young Lady]
Nov 2005 Little Daffydowndilly, by N. Hawthorne [#71][haw71xxx.xxx] 9244
[From "The Snow Image and other Twice Told Tales", by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 The Wives of the Dead, by N. Hawthorne [#70][haw70xxx.xxx] 9243
[From "The Snow Image and other Twice Told Tales", by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Old Ticonderoga, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#69][haw69xxx.xxx] 9242
[From "The Snow Image and other Twice Told Tales", by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 John Inglefield's Thanksgiving by Hawthorne [#68][haw68xxx.xxx] 9241
[From "The Snow Image and other Twice Told Tales", by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 The Man of Adamant, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#67][haw67xxx.xxx] 9240
[From "The Snow Image and other Twice Told Tales", by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Old News, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#66][haw66xxx.xxx] 9239
[From "The Snow Image and other Twice Told Tales", by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Sylph Etherege, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#65][haw65xxx.xxx] 9238
[From "The Snow Image and other Twice Told Tales", by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 A Bell's Biography, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#64][haw64xxx.xxx] 9237
[From "The Snow Image and other Twice Told Tales", by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Main Street, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#63][haw63xxx.xxx] 9236
[From "The Snow Image And Other Twice Told Tales", by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
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F Scott Fitzgerald
What happened to the Jazz-Age generation? A newspaper reporter once
asked Francis Scott Fitzgerald. He answered "Some became brokers and
threw themselves out of windows. Others became bankers and shot
themselves. Still others became newspaper reporters. And a few became
successful authors."
Nowadays he fits completely into the last category. Faulkner,
Hemingway and Fitzgerald are symbols of American Literature in the
20th Century. But in the year 1940, when he died in Hollywood from the
heart attack provoked by prolonged alcoholism, the obituaries were
mourning more about the unfulfilled promises than about the premature
death of the genius.
F. Scott Fitzgerald went to Hollywood in 1937, when his life was
already reaching its nadir. His wife Zelda was permanently in
psychiatric hospitals, his financial situation was not far from
catastrophe, he was a heavy and unhappy drinker, already buried by
critics as another gone-off talent and literature has-been. His
self-characteristic in his 1935 'Crack-Up' essays was a -cracked
plate. And the typical passage from this depression stimulated work
is "Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in
actual destitution or physical suffering. This is an all-weather
beatitude for gloom in general, but at 3 o'clock in the morning the
cure doesn't work-- and in a real dark night of the soul it is always
3 o'clock in the morning."
'Tender is the Night' published a year before the essays (and entered
to PG Australia this week) despite its calmer and more uncertain
ending, has the same air of decline, since the troubles and
unsettledness were marked his life a for long time. You can find
those black marks during 7 long years in Europe, which ended with his
wife Zelda's breakdown in 1930. Customary debts and broken friendship
were another American literature pillar of 20th century living at
that time in Old World. The Fitzgeralds sailed to Europe in 1924 in
search for new excitements and a hopefully less expensive life. They
deliberately took the unlicensed ship and on its sober boards the 30
years old Francis, yet full of energy and willpower, finished the
'The Great Gatsby'. But again it already was not a very happy time -
the debts were deep, and the failure of the play 'Vegetable' in 1923
followed the reasonable success of 'Tales of the Jazz Age' in 1922.
And even in 1920, immediately after the tremendous success of his
first big work 'This Side of Paradise', Fitzgerald was traveling along
Broadway in an open-top car. It was a warm, still night, and he was in
a heightened state of drunken exhilaration. The future seemed
infinitely inviting. Then, bafflingly, he began to cry - because "life
would never be so sweet again". Was it the self-fulfilled prophecy or
just normal reaction of sensitive nervous system to the alcoholic
intoxication, I can not say. It was hard to foretell the twillight in
1920 - he was 23 years old, praised by all critics and public as the
most promising contemporary American author and living the life as far
away from the grey surviving routine as possible. Same year he has
married Miss Zelda Sayre, daughter of Anthony D. Sayre, an Alabama
Supreme Court Justice, the girl who previously had broken their
engagement, due to fear of underfinanced life with young and poor
Francis. But strangely his words did came out true - the most
enjoyable years of his life were already over. Those were years spent
in the army (1917-1919) and before that in Princeton (1912-1917),
where he concentrated on the playwriting and having good time in
general. The constant shortness in finances was always in the air, but
the energy and talent were abundant, so the sorrows were sweet, the
nights tender and the conversations full of hidden sense and open fire
- Back there, on Christmas parties in 1914, 18-years old Francis met
and fall in love with lovely Ginevra King - future prototype for all
those witty, joyful young ladies dancing and flirting with southern
accent in his stories. He was 'handsome, insouciant and possessing
unusual gifts for story telling'.
Here I want to stop and let him stay at this moment of his life, as he
always wanted, instead of describing the childhood of a son of serial
bankrupt growing up in the wealthy neighborhood of St. Paul. Let's
leave it to the real biographers and just go and greet today the
Mollie McQuillan-Fitzgerald and Edward Fitzgerald with the birth of
their son Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, named so after the famous
ancestor from Mollie's side - Francis Scott Key, composer of "The Star
Spangled Banner. The newborn is screaming and others are smiling. And
actually they are right - the great talent was born today - on 24th of
September 1896 in the privet home at 481 Laurel Avenue, St. Paul.
Internet:
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/ - has many interesting documents,
including obituaries, voice and film clips etc. Amongst them the test
of 'Romantic Egotist' - the novel that Fitzgerald wrote during the
service in the army and which was then transformed to 'This Side of
Paradise'. It has also lovely small collection of his short stories
(follow the writings link for this
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/writings.html ), that will bring the
splash of the hot lazy wind of South on your face chilled under the
air-conditioner.
The sunlight dripped over the house like golden paint over an art
jar, and the freckling shadows here and there only intensified the
rigor of the bath of light. The Butterworth and Larkin houses flanking
were intrenched behind great stodgy trees; only the Happer house took
the full sun, and all day long faced the dusty road-street with a
tolerant kindly patience. This was the city of Tarleton in
southernmost Georgia, September afternoon.
Up in her bedroom window Sally Carrol Happer rested her
nineteen-year-old chin on a fifty-two-year-old sill and watched Clark
Darrow's ancient Ford turn the corner. The car was hot-- being partly
metallic it retained all the heat it absorbed or evolved -- and Clark
Darrow sitting bolt upright at the wheel wore a pained, strained
expression as though he considered himself a spare part, and rather
likely to break. He laboriously crossed two dust ruts, the wheels
squeaking indignantly at the encounter, and then with a terrifying
expression he gave the steering-gear a final wrench and deposited self
and car approximately in front of the Happer steps. There was a
plaintive heaving sound, a death-rattle, followed by a short silence;
and then the air was rent by a startling whistle.
Sally Carrol gazed down sleepily. She started to yawn, but finding
this quite impossible unless she raised her chin from the window-sill,
changed her mind and continued silently to regard the car, whose owner
sat brilliantly if perfunctorily at attention as he waited for an
answer to his signal. After a moment the whistle once more split the
dusty air.
"Good mawnin'."
With difficulty Clark twisted his tall body round and bent a distorted
glance on the window.
"'Tain't mawnin', Sally Carrol."
"Isn't it, sure enough?"
"What you do in'?"
"Eatin' 'n apple."
"Come on go swimmin'-- want to?"
"Reckon so."
"How 'bout hurryin' up?"
"Sure enough."
Sally Carrol sighed voluminously and raised herself with profound
inertia from the floor, where she had been occupied in alternately
destroying parts of a green apple and painting paper tops for her
younger sister. She approached a mirror, regarded her expression with
a pleassd and pleasant languor, dabbed two spots of rouge on her lips
and a grain of powder on her nose, and covered her bobbed corn-colored
hair with a rose littered sun bonnet. Then she kicked over the
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Nov 2005 Exploring Expedition to the Rockies, by Fremont [?exprxxx.xxx] 9294
[Full title: The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and
California]
[Subtitle: To Which Is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of
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Nov 2005 Audio: The Valley Of Decision, Edith Wharton [vldcnxxx.mp3] 9292C
Nov 2005 Audio: The Reef, Edith Wharton [treefxxx.mp3] 9291C
Nov 2005 Audio: Touchstone, Edith Wharton [touchxxx.mp3] 9290C
Nov 2005 Audio: Tales Of Men And Ghosts, Edith Wharton [tlmghxxx.mp3] 9289C
Nov 2005 Audio: Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton [thnfrxxx.mp3] 9288C
Nov 2005 Audio: The Glimpses of the Moon, Edith Wharton [tgotmxxx.mp3] 9287C
Nov 2005 Audio: The Descent of Man & Other Stories, Wharton[tdmosxxx.mp3] 9286C
[Author: Edith Wharton]
Nov 2005 Audio: Summer, Edith Wharton [summrxxx.mp3] 9285C
Nov 2005 Audio: Sanctuary, Edith Wharton [snctrxxx.mp3] 9284C
Nov 2005 Audio: Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses,Wharton[rtmstxxx.mp3] 9283C
Nov 2005 Audio: Madame de Treymes, Edith Wharton [mdmdtxxx.mp3] 9282C
Nov 2005 Audio: The Hermit And The Wild Woman, E. Wharton [hrmwwxxx.mp3] 9281C
Nov 2005 Audio: House of Mirth, Edith Wharton [hmirtxxx.mp3] 9280C
Nov 2005 Audio: Fighting France, Edith Wharton [fghtnxxx.mp3] 9279C
Nov 2005 Audio: Bunner Sisters, Edith Wharton [bunnrxxx.mp3] 9278C
Nov 2005 Audio: Crucial Instances, Edith Wharton [7crcixxx.mp3] 9277C
Nov 2005 Audio: Three Sermons, Three Prayers Jonathan Swift[trsm1xxx.mp3] 9276C
Nov 2005 Audio: A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift [tltb1xxx.mp3] 9275C
Nov 2005 Audio: The Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift [stllaxxx.mp3] 9274C
Nov 2005 Audio: A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift [mdprpxxx.mp3] 9273C
Nov 2005 Audio: Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift [gltrvxxx.mp3] 9272C
Nov 2005 Audio: The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers, J. Swift [bstafxxx.mp3] 9271C
Nov 2005 Audio: The Battle of the Books, Jonathan Swift [batbkxxx.mp3] 9270C
Nov 2005 Audio: Typee, Herman Melville [typeexxx.mp3] 9269C
Nov 2005 Audio: Omoo, Herman Melville [omoosxxx.mp3] 9268C
Nov 2005 Chip, of the Flying U, by B. M. Bower [#13][chpfuxxx.xxx] 9267
Nov 2005 Scientific American Supplement, No. 447,by Various[?0447xxx.xxx] 9266
[Title: Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XVIII, No. 447, July 26, 1884]
[Also posted: illustrated HTML in 8044710h.zip only; HTML in 8044710h.htm]
Nov 2005 Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859[#22][?04a2xxx.xxx] 9265
[Full Title: The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859]
[Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] [Author: Various]
Nov 2005 Vand- og stenhoejsplanter, by G.N. Brandt (red.) [?vastxxx.xxx] 9264
[Full title: Vand- og stenhoejsplanter en vejledning for havevenner]
[Language: Danish]
Nov 2005 In the Midst of Alarms, by Robert Barr [?mdlrxxx.xxx] 9263
Nov 2005 Le corricolo, by Alexandre Dumas [?lcrrxxx.xxx] 9262
[Language: French]
Nov 2005 Les grandes dames, by Arsene Houssaye [?grdmxxx.xxx] 9261
[Language: French]
Nov 2005 Prometheus, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe [?prmtxxx.xxx] 9260
[Subtitle: Dramatisches Fragment] [Language: German]
Nov 2005 Charlotte's Inheritance, by M. E. Braddon [#4][?inhrxxx.xxx] 9259
Oct 2005 Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober,by E.T.A. Hoffmann [?klnzxxx.xxx] 9200
[Subtitle: Ein Maerchen] [Language: German]
Oct 2005 Monism, by Ernst Haeckel [#4][?monoxxx.xxx] 9199
[Full title: Monism as Connecting Religion and Science] [Subtitle: A Man of
Science] [Tranlator: J. Gilchrist]
Oct 2005 The Complete Angler 1653, by Isaak Walton [#2][?tcngxxx.xxx] 9198
(See also #683, a more modern version)
Oct 2005 English Villages, by P. H. Ditchfield [?vilgxxx.xxx] 9197
[Also posted illustrated HTML - 8vilg10h.zip; and 8vilg10h.htm]
Oct 2005 The Clockmaker, by Thomas Chandler Haliburton [#6][clckmxxa.xxx] 9196
Oct 2005 The Slave Of The Lamp, by Henry Seton Merriman [?sllpxxx.xxx] 9195
Oct 2005 The Second Deluge, by Garrett P. Serviss [?2dlgxxx.xxx] 9194
Oct 2005 The Angel of Lonesome Hill, by Frederick Landis [anglhxxx.xxx] 9193
[Subtitle: A Story Of A President]
Oct 2005 The Channings: A Story, by Mrs. Henry Wood [?chgsxxx.xxx] 9192
[Author AKA: Ellen Wood]
Oct 2005 Stephen Archer and Other Tales,by George MacDonald[?stchxxx.xxx] 9191
Oct 2005 The Greater Inclination, Edith Wharton [?grclxxx.xxx] 9190
Oct 2005 Henry Dunbar, by M. E. Braddon [?dunbxxx.xxx] 9189
[Subtitle: A Novel]
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Oct 2005 Aboriginal American Authors, by Daniel G. Brinton [?abamxxx.xxx] 9188
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Oct 2005 Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [?mnbhxxx.xxx] 9187
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Nathan der Weise, by Gotthold Epraim Lessing [?nthnxxx.xxx] 9186
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Mystery of Murray Davenport, by Robert N. Stephens[?murrxxx.xxx] 9185
[Full author: Robert Neilson Stephens]
Oct 2005 Spirit of St. Francis de Sales, Jean Pierre Camus [?franxxx.xxx] 9184
Oct 2005 Wilfrid Cumbermede, by George MacDonald [?wilfxxx.xxx] 9183
Oct 2005 Villette, by Charlotte Bronte [#4][?villxxx.xxx] 9182
Oct 2005 Die Ahnfrau, by Franz Grillparzer [#15][?frauxxx.xxx] 9181
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3,Boswell, ed. Birkbeck Hill[?jhn3xxx.xxx] 9180
[Full title: The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6]
[Including Boswell's Journal Of A Tour To The Hebrides And Johnson's
Diary Of A Journey Into North Wales]
Oct 2005 The Bride of the Mistletoe, by James Lane Allen [?bridxxx.xxx] 9179
Oct 2005 Japanischer Fruehling, by Hans Bethge [?jpfrxxx.xxx] 9178
[Subtitle: Nachdichtungen Japanischer Lyrik] [Language: German]
Oct 2005 The Royal Game of the Ombre, by Anonymous [ombrexxx.xxx] 9177
[Subtitle: Written At the Request of divers Honourable Persons--1665]
Oct 2005 Queen Mary and Harold, by Alfred Lord Tennyson[#7][mrhldxxx.xxx] 9176
Contents:
Queen Mary: A Drama
Harold: A Drama
Oct 2005 Art Of Poetry An Epistle To The Pisos, by Horace [?artpxxx.xxx] 9175
[Subtitle: Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica]
[Translated From Horace, with Notes By George Colman--1783]
[Language: Latin, French and English]
Oct 2005 Bay State Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 1, by Various [b0101xxx.xxx] 9174
[Subtitle: A Massachusetts Magazine of Literature, History, Biography,
And State Progress]
[Also posted illustrated HTML - b010110h.zip; and b010110h.htm]
Oct 2005 Youth: Its Education, by G. Stanley Hall [?yuthxxx.xxx] 9173
[Full title: Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene]
Oct 2005 Study of Association in Insanity, Grace Helen Kent[?insnxxx.xxx] 9172
[Additional Author: A.J. Rosanoff]
Oct 2005 Slavery Ordained of God,by Rev. Fred. A. Ross, D.D[?slavxxx.xxx] 9171
[Also posted HTML - 8slav10h.zip and 8slav10h.htm]
Oct 2005 Three Cities Trilogy, Complete, by Emile Zola[#36][ztrilxxx.xxx] 9170
[Includes: Lourdes, #8516; Rome, #8726, and Paris, #9169][3.8 mb]
Oct 2005 Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete, Zola [#35][pari6xxx.xxx] 9169
Oct 2005 Three Cities: Paris, Vol. 5, by Emile Zola [#34][pari5xxx.xxx] 9168
Oct 2005 Three Cities: Paris, Vol. 4, by Emile Zola [#33][pari4xxx.xxx] 9167
Oct 2005 Three Cities: Paris, Vol. 3, by Emile Zola [#32][pari3xxx.xxx] 9166
Oct 2005 Three Cities: Paris, Vol. 2, by Emile Zola [#31][pari2xxx.xxx] 9165
Oct 2005 Three Cities: Paris, Vol. 1, by Emile Zola [#30][pari1xxx.xxx] 9164
[Full title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris]
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creators.
For the first year and a half or so at DP, it was often the Project
Manager who carried a text through Post. As this was the same person
who had done all the preparation tasks, this was a labor intensive
job. The increase in the number of projects moving through the Rounds
demanded both innovation and some form of distribution for the post stages,
and with time and hard work such a system evolved. Along with the program
tools a Forum was created dedicated solely to Post Processing, where
questions could be answered growing over time into a collected body of
lore which new processors continue to draw upon for guidance.
In late 2002 the Post Processing Queue was created to organize the
projects after completing Round 2, this encouraged a wider audience
to participate. In 2003 certain projects were partitioned into small
segments that provided a means for interested proofers to expand their
participation. Also this year the Verification Queue was initiated and
has proven a great assist in maintaining a steady flow of completed
texts. One of the side benefits of the Verification Q' is that it
provided a key component in a monitor system that allows Project
Managers and System Administrators to easily keep track of the entire
work flow of projects at DP. In previous columns we have explored the
'Project Release Queue,' those texts in line for release into the
first proofing round. The other Q's are equally as exciting to watch,
and reveal those projects which are on the doorstep of the PG library.
Another little known fact about the Verification stage is that it
serves a secondary purpose to supporting the Post Processor's
craft. During Verification, experienced Post Processors are guided and
trained by existing Verifiers until eventually they are skilled enough
to submit projects directly to PG.
There is much more to the Post Production process. The aim here is to
open the door and peek in over the shoulders of the processors and to
broaden our sense of another of those 'quiet' labors which fall under
the heading of Distributed Proofreaders. It's an ongoing journey which
this column will continue to tag along on and hopefully explore a
little further each week. Stick around! ...things are just getting started.
I cannot close this week without a mention of something that has just
unfolded today. Bill Keir, one of DP's System Administrators has added
a new wing to the forums. We now have an independent branch set aside
specifically for Project Discussions. This expands upon the existing
Project forum by creating two entirely new forums. One is an archive
for the discussion threads of projects that have passed through DP and
now live within the stacks of PG. This provides a reference resource
that can help future projects which face similar challenges to elder
DP texts. It is also a fun playground for those who like to explore
history or just rekindle fond memories of of their participation in a
particular project.
The second new project forum is dedicated to large scale or special
need projects. If you are interested in watching DP strut down the
avenue in one of its best suits, this is a place to park your
browser. As mentioned a couple of weeks back, one of the most
impressive successes of this project is that by distributing the labor
of digitization the 'realm of possibility' has expanded in many
directions. Large scale projects that were simply too overwhelming for
individual developers are now either possible or at least worth
serious consideration. To understand what actually constitutes a
special project, visit the forum. Bill has appropriately titled it
'UberProjects,' and he has provided clear descriptions of how the
forum works and what qualifies as 'Uber.'
Well that's about it for this week, except a little bit of good news
for the 'Night Owls' in the audience, you now have a place to go when
sleep is not a desired option. It seems that somebody had a idea that
it might be fun to get together in the final 2-3 hours of each day and
see whether DP had met its Daily Page Goal yet. If not, then these
Distributed Insomniacs have something fun and productive to do on-line
for a little while. It seems to have taken root, so if that sounds
like something to your taste, visit the General forum and look for the
'Midnight Crew.' Mind you, that's a relative concept in this Global
age ... so if it's 12AM in Bombay, you can't sleep, join up and set
the pace for the whole day to follow.
I want to express my gratitude to Tonya for working with me on this
issue's column. Next week, we will take that closer look into the Pre
Production steps, and begin our conversations with the tool developers
of DP. We'll also get a sneak peek at the hot features that are
appearing in the new site upgrade, coming soon to a monitor near you!
All the best to each of you!
And to our friends in or near the path of Isabel, be careful out there!
Stay safe and dry!
Thierry Alberto
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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
Nosferatu
There are surprisingly many story lines connected to this single
black-and-white piece of silent film, where in bright midnight light
the bat-like vampire is coming to the unsuspicious human habitat on a
ship with the dead captain banded to the wheel.
First is the story of the movie itself : a bastard child of gifted
German director Friederich Wilhelm Murnau conceived illegally from the
well-known novel 'Dracula' of late Dubliner Bram (Abraham) Stoker
(1847-1912)
(http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_bram_stoker.html).
The beautiful but jealous widow Florence Stoker was so furious about
this adultery, that she had almost immediately started the copyright
law-suit against movie and its creator. The naïve and feeble attempts
of camouflaging the true source of movie plot, like changing the names
of people and places, didn't help much and the verdict of the court
was tough - to stop the film distribution and to burn (like a real
witchcraft possession!) all existing copies of it. Sounds bad, huh?
However there are always people that do not obey the law. Depending on
its profitability for us, we call this fortunately or unfortunately
quality of human behavior. In this case it is commonly agreed to use
the word 'fortunately', at least by the horror movie lovers and cinema
historians. Several pirate copies survived the calamity, so PG now is
able now to bin it for amusement and scarring of future
generations. The edifying thing is that the trial actually gave the
final 'kick' to the whole blood-sucking theme in general and to the
Stoker's 'Dracula' in particular, the history of vampire horror
entertainments was started and the widow Stoker became rich from the
copyright percentage (pay attention, oh PG people, to the Power of Publicity!).
Second there is the story in the movie. When the fable plot is more or
less preserved to be same as in original novel, the essence and
characters are quite different. The interpretations of the changes are
abundant and various. Most of them, naturally, have strictly
freudistic character, because it seems that unlike the novel, where
the brave humans are fighting the 'bad guys'- vampires, the movie is
more like an obsessive love story. The vampire is not the cold-blooded
and even somewhere charming aristocrat, looking on humans as on a menu
in a restaurant, but the unhappy hideous creature tortured by desire.
Many say that the maniacal Count was the reflection of Murnau's
illicit love to the killed boy-friend Hans. The Jim Shepard's
fictional biography of the Murnau called also 'Nosferatu' is strongly
supporting this version.
Thirdly, it is the story about the making of this movie. 'The
historical landmark', 'the blueprint', 'great classics of film' are
the most widely used epithets regarding this Expressionist classic on
the 8-mm film. The negative and superimposed images and the oddly shot
scene angles of Murnau are, as they say, the very grammar of art-film
making. Another innovation was the usage of natural stages, blurred
and strangely shaped by special effects. Ellen sitting in the dunes
covered with iron crucifixes or strange angles of the castle are the
classical examples of the strange emotions brilliantly transformed to
the visual images. As Murau said by himself "I like the reality of
things, but not without the fantasy - they must dovetail. Is that not
so with life, with human reactions and emotions? We have our thoughts
and also our deeds."
The last story is about the director. Friederich Wilhelm Murnau was
born as Friederich Wilhelm Plumpe in the small German town of
Bielefeld, on Dec. 28, 1889. After studying Philology and later Art
History at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg respectively, he
studied in Max Reinhart's drama school by direct invitation of Max
Reinhart himself. Then came the war and F.W. was mobilized to German
air force. Young actor's serving in the army during WW1 is quite
remarkably reminisant of the 'Catch 22' lines - After seven (!) crashes
of his airplane, he succeeded finally to get lost in the fog and land
in the neutral Switzerland, where he happily remained interned till
the end of hostilities. There he performed in theater and in exchange
for the safety made a lot of propaganda films for the German
embassy. Back in Berlin after the war, he formed a production company
(Murnau Veidt Filmgesellschaft) and made several movies in noir-Gothic
fashion like 'Der Knabe in Blau/The Boy in Blue'(1919), and 'Satanas'
(also 1919). Then he makes his first (and more successful) attempt to
violate the copyright law by making movie based on Stevenson's
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", called "Der Januskoph/The Janus Head"
(1920). All those movies are lost in the time-space so the first
remaining one is "Der Gang in Die Nacht/The Gang in the Night" (1920).
The fame started to burn its incense to Murnau-director only in 1922
after Nosferatu. Then "Der Letzte Mann/The Last Laugh" in 1924
established his international reputation and he was invited to
Hollywood*. He was customarily unhappy overseas, complaining about too
much pressure and control from the money-power people, since his first
project, "Sunrise" (1927), was extremely artistic and extremely
non-profitable. So Murnau's wings were significantly cut by initially
generous William Fox, by induced happy endings and other tricks that
supposed to make the new movies more life- and
money-supporting. Naturally, F.W. broke his contract and made few
documentaries with the newly-established Colorart company. The new
company was artistically supportive but also naturally not
profitable. So after the bankruptcy of Colorart, he sponsored the new
movie 'Tabu' from his own pocket. Then in March of 1931 F.W.Murau was
killed in a car accident before the film premiered.
The final shots will be of the world today - the search for Nosferatu
in Google gives 275.000 links. Not all of them are about the movie,
there are plenty of horror games and infernal stories, when the name
itself is already a common noun, representing vampire clans and forces
of dark. The remake of Nosferatu in 1979 together with the new
rock-based score are mostly curiosities and almost forgotten
already. The freshly made 'Interview with a vampire' where the
respectable actor Max Schreck was portrayed as a real vampire, is not
so bad according to reviews, however will probably survive in history
mostly by the connection with it's famous prototype - the black and
white piece of silent film, where in bright midnight light the
bat-like vampire is coming to the unsuspicious human habitat on ship
with the dead captain banded to the wheel
That's all, folks.
Nosferatu final titles:
Director:
F.W.Murnau
Screenplay:
Henrik Galeen
Year Released:
1922
Starring cast (in alphabetical order):
- Gustav Botz .... Dr. Sievers, Town Doctor
- Karl Etlinger .... Sailor
- John Gottowt .... Professor Bulwer
- Alexander Granach .... Knock
- Wolfgang Heinz .... First mate
- Guido Herzfeld .... Innkeeper
- Ruth Landshoff .... Lucy Westrenka
- Max Nemetz .... Captain
- G.H. Schell .... Westrenka
- Max Schreck .... Graf Orlok/Nosferatu
- Greta Schr?der .... Ellen Hutter
- Albert Venohr .... Sailor
- Heinrich Witte .... Sailor
- Hardy von Francois .... Doctor in Hospital
- Gustav von Wangenheim .... Hutter
Original score:
Hans Erdmann (1887-1942) A recording of this spine-chilling
masterpiece is available on CD on the RCA Victor Red Seal
label, catalogue number 09026 68143 2.
And few useful internet sites:
http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/bio/celeb/1676735, for nicely written biography
http://www.phillyburbs.com/halloween2001/dracula/nosferatwo.shtml, for
a funny freudistic plot interpretation
http://www.sloppyfilms.com/murnau/nosferat.html, for real passionate movie review
And for those who like the author of these notes do not like the noir and vampires,
see http://www.whitehouseanimationinc.com/kunstbar.htm
for nice illustration of influence of the art on our lives
Gali Sirkis
* Gali's original version of these notes stated 'Hollowood'. Please add your own irony - Ed
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About Radio Gutenberg.
My first contact with the Gutenberg project came in or about 1984. I was
stunned as the value and worth of the collection were indisputable, yet it
existed in a world without price tags.
In the early 1990s, my father-in-law began to lose his vision to
macular degeneration. By 2000 he was no longer able to watch television
or read the newspaper. Radio is now his only link to the world, outside
of family.
IBM came into the linux world at that point in my life, and made a
copy of ViaVoice running the Eloquence engine available for download.
It was Emacspeak compatible. Jon Grimm and I made a bootable CD-ROM
and packaged it with about a hundred of the most famous and popular
texts in the collection.
At about the same time, Jon and I began to experiment with live broadcasting
over the internet using Icecast. We also engaged in several excursions
introducing the Gutenberg Collection and these technologies into local
public school systems. A while later, the financial underpinnings of the
Gutenberg Project showed us their fraying edges, and the idea of Radio
Gutenberg made itself apparent to me:
An interlinked network of local vendors creating the necessary materials
for disabled access to web-based federal resources, using our "discovered"
technology, could generate funding on a more stable footing than the existing
Gutenberg mechanisms, and also make the collection accessable to that same
visually impaired, illiterate and English as a second language audience.
Why this, and not something else? Self determination. Rather than choosing
to follow a formula that would take us where we were told we should go, we
found our own in a model that begins with who and where we are.
The first and most critical problem that had to be solved in creating audio
books that would be useful was to create a means of production that would
create sufficient volumes of materials to make an impact, and still preserve
the meaning of the works to be presented in audio.
A book is in many ways analogous to a musical score in that the words
represent pitch sequences, and the punctuation represents phrasing -
especially rests ( the silences). The reading of a book, like the playing of
music, depends first and foremost on meter. So that is how we built the book
editing software, to make the meter acceptable first, and then to address
other problems in the performance. Once an acceptable meter had been
achieved, the audio books suffered from problems similar to those
experienced by a human reader suffering from stroke damage. So we had a
speech pathologist submit our editor software to a battery of standardized
tests.
Today our efforts are focused on accent reduction, correct pronunciation of
French, Spanish and Native American place names, resolution of accents in
homographs and speed. Our ultimate goal is to create a machine that can
audio enable the Library of Congress in one year, unattended. We have dubbed
that machine "Deep Thought".
This quarter we are working on a new process that will allow users to create a
desired book on demand, and follow the progress through a web-based
"dashboard". This process will allow us to keep the hundred or so most
popular requested audio books available for immediate download as a zip file,
a set of .mp3 files or a CD image, with any other work in the collection
available through "on-demand" creation.
Over the long term, we have five major goals :
1 - More human reading style for all Gutenberg audio books.
Current activities include place name databases, homograph dictionaries
and phrase level automatic diagramming for inflection. With these
features in place, the speech synthesizer and our automatic
editor may achieve parity with locally available volunteer readers,
and superiority in many cases.
2 - Establishment of a broadcast network on the internet.
If we had 50 icecast broadcast servers in operation today, each hosting four
monophonic broadcast channels, for a total of 200 channels, that would provide
a reach similar in kind to a PBS, and provide a venue for fund raising.
3 - Creation of new works for the collection.
When the funding mechanisms have achieved a state of equilibrium, we hope to
fund festivals, camps and workshops that bring together young unknown talent
for the purpose of creating new teleplays, musical compositions and
stories for distribution by Gutenberg. Bringing musicians and writers
together on a campus with facilities to produce video will allow
budding composers to try their hand at writing sound tracks, something
unavailable anywhere today.
4 - Procurement of copyrighted works for the collection.
Our most basic activity in this vein is in securing copyright permissions for
pre-existing works. Our efforts are focused on the C.S. Lewis Chronicles of
Narnia, the SciFi channel's collection of classic science fiction (one author at a
time), Fordham University's Internet History collections and ESA/NASA materials.
Long term we hope to garner a number of works from PhD candidates at
accessable universities, especially in chemistry, medicine and
physics. Our primary sources for these materials today include the
Michoud Shuttle External Tank Assembly Facility, NASA's Stennis Space
Flight Center, University of Maryland and University of New Orleans.
Still very preliminary and speculative, we are also attempting to
procure musical performances by the Louisiana Symphony Orchestra and a
group of graduate students at the University of Akron.
5 - Creation of Video works for the collection.
The Solar System series Jon and I have been working on for the past year or so
began as a text only draft of the "Encyclopedia of the Solar System"
ISBN 0-12-226805-9 major planetary chapters at opensourceschools.org.
Since then, we have begun to separate the materials into volumes that
address the role of the gravitational influence and state changes in the
character of the Solar System, and feature new, original 3D videos that
demonstrate the main features of the Solar System as we understand them today.
The first volume of this series is due to be released on December 10th as a
DVD in the Gutenberg collection.
We are also engaged in preliminary assessments of DVD based text books on
algebra and geometry. These textbooks will be unique in that they use
visualizations to demonstrate how a field project's data are typically
collected, indexed and inferentially expanded into a summation using the
tools of algebra and geometry. We hope that this approach will result in the
reader acquiring the "right" sort of curiosity in the world, when procedural
skills are acquired because insight and intuition demand them. In this way
the "ethos" of a theorem or algebraic translation procedure is revealed in
the context of a real world problem. As a basis, we are selecting materials
from water diversion projects here in Louisiana that intend to reclaim lost
marshlands, and also environmental impact statements by both the EPA and
Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries / Louisiana Department of Natural Resources.
Long term, we hope these works establish the necessary preconditions for
Gutenberg to become the publisher of choice for new studies of the ecology of
North America's gulf coast.
This probably sounds like a lot for two people to pull off. It really isn't
in terms of the man-hours required. And other non-profits could provide what's
needed without spending a dime (the physical facilities are paid for and
under-utilized). Putting it all down on paper has been a tad
disheartening, but that too is an illusion. All it takes to make this
reality is for the right people to say "OK". I hope that starts with you.
Thank you, patient reader for making it this far. Your comments are
most welcome, especially if you decide to embark on your own new
projects in a similar vein.
Mike Eschman, Founder of Radio Gutenberg.
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Quiz
The answers to last weeks' quiz are below. Mary Wilson almost wins the
newsletter Smartypants award as she was the only person to submit an
entry, but she had switched two answers. Instead, she wins our eternal
gratitude, and shame on the rest of you. So, the Smartypants award
stays in the cupboard for a rollover next time. Thanks again to Tonya.
ANSWERS:
The theme of this one is children's books:
1. Anne of Green Gables etext92/anne11.txt
c. Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main
road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders
and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its
source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place.
2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz etext93/wizoz10.txt
f. Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with
Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's
wife.
3. The Secret Garden etext94/gardn11.txt
d. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor
to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most
disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
4. A Little Princess etext94/lprss11.txt
a. Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick
and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted
and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-
looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven
rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.
5. Five Children and It etext97/fivit10.txt
g. The house was three miles from the station, but before the dusty
hired fly had rattled along for five minutes the children began to
put their heads out of the carriage window and to say, 'Aren't we
nearly there?'
6. The Princess and the Goblin etext96/prgob10.txt
h. There was once a little princess whose father was king over a great
country full of mountains and valleys.
7. The Jungle Book etext95/jnglb10.txt
b. It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills
when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself,
yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of
the sleepy feeling in their tips.
8. Black Beauty etext95/bbeau10.txt
i. The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant
meadow with a pond of clear water in it.
9. The Wind in the Willows etext95/wwill10.txt
e. The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-
cleaning his little home.
{Hey, I got that one - Ed}
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Notes from Posted
Inspired by this weeks' suggestions about where it is possible to
source etexts from, Gali takes a look around the internet to find out, well...
just what is out there?
After shallow dive in the slightly troubled waters of web Orbis
Tertius, I've fished out several sources for e-texts with one thing in
common - they do not have a clue about PG. No link or ever
mentioning. They do know each other, though. OK, indeed, I am a
stranger in PG debris, with infinitely small understanding of the life
behind the emails, so let's go to business:
Starting from the most familiar for myself: http://lib.ru - library of
Maxim Moshkov contains huge amount various books in Russian. While it
might be a problem with Russian copyright, the Russian classical
literature is widely available there - Tolstoj, Pushkin and Gogol for
sure will not sue PG for the unauthorized e-copies of their work. The
translations are also readily available upon request. Cooperation of
PG with this source of e-text has one more important point - The
potential proofreading power of Russian readers is enormous - most of
them are literate, enjoy the process and have an access to the internet.
From lib.ru my quest for books about Till Ulenshpiegel led me to the
nice little collection of French classical literature:
http://abu.cnam.fr/BIB/index.html
Their copyright required the mentioning of the e-source which
definitely will not harm anybody. Almost none of the books from this
site are in GUTVOL index file in their mother-French version.
The bunch of e-text collections below are cross-referenced and one of
them, the Virginia one claims to the one of the largest e-text
collections with 6000000 downloads in a year, as far as I
remember. BTW in connection to Hawthorne biography from previous
newsletter issue - they possess the full documentary of Salem witchcraft trials
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/texts/transcripts.html,
which would be nice to have together with the Hawthorne collection.
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/centers.html
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/ets/
http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Default.htm
Then few very rich in information sites with all kind of ancient texts
in original Greek and Latin - the real challenge for DP, as well as in translations
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ - which itself has plenty of texts
such as code of Hammurabi
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html in English or to
the Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War in Greek with
embedded forms http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/thucy1.doc . It
also provides good live links to plenty of historical documents, such
as early Egyptian literature, e.g. http://www.egyptology.com/extreme/mehy/.
You can also have a look on :
http://www.iuscivile.com/materials/sources.shtml
for Rome originated documents and papyruses. Or on
http://www.sikhs.org/transl.htm you can find beautifully composed
Morning Prayer by Guru Nanak.
Uf, I have to accent slowly from the water: my oxygen counter shows
almost 0 already ? So hope it will help or give a material for
thoughts, or at least add few more texts for PG collection ? it would
be a shame to waste this amount of information, waiting for the future
generations to dig it out from the deep waters of the ancient source
of human communication - the mysterious and infernal Internet.
Gali Sirkis
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Credits
Thanks this time go to Brett and George for the numbers and
booklists. Thierry, Gali, Steve Herber, Michael and Tonya, Greg,
Michael, and Larry Wall. Entertainment for the workers provided by
absolutely no-one as my internet connection wasn't working so I
couldn't get 6music (Dear Santa, for Xmas please can I have a digital
radio?).
Also,
Subject: Smthng intrstng
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it
deosn't mttaer in what oredr the ltteers in a wrod
are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and
the lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be
a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit
porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter
by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Takhns to Gali!
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Correction: I reported 102 new eBooks last week, it actually was 101.
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YR 1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003 ^####
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Aug 10, 2003 9,000>8/03 9,000
July 4, 2003 8,500>7/03 8,500
May 20, 2003 8,000>5/03 8,000
[75%] 7,500>3/03 7,500
7,000>1/03 7,000
6,500>12/02 6,500
6,000 >9/02 6,000
5,500 >7/02 5,500
[50%] April 10, 2002 5,000 >4/02 5,000
4,500 >2/02 4,500
4,000>10/01 4,000
3,500 >5/01 3,500
3,000 >12/00 3,000
[25%] 2,500 > 8/00 2,500
2,000 >12/99 2,000
1,500 >10/98 1,500
[10%] 1,000 >8/97 1,000
500 >4/96 500
[ 1%] 100 >12/93 <<<December 10, 1993 100
10 > 12/90 10
YR 1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003 ^####
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In the first 8.25 months of this year, we produced 2762 new eBooks.
It took us from 1971 to 2000 to produce our first 2,762 eBooks!
That's 37 WEEKS as Compared to ~30 Years!
77 New eBooks This Week
101 New eBooks Last Week [Corrected from 102]
178 New eBooks This Month [September]
335 Average Per Month in 2003 <<<
203 Average Per Month in 2002 <<<
103 Average Per Month in 2001 <<<
2762 New eBooks in 2003
2441 New eBooks in 2002
1240 New eBooks in 2001
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6443 New eBooks Since Start Of 2001
That's Only 32 Months! 200+/mo
9,505 Total Project Gutenberg eBooks
5,977 eBooks This Week Last Year
3,490 New eBooks In The Last 12 Months [98.61%]
3,516 Would Have Been Exactly Moore's Law[100%]
4,642 New eBooks in the last 18 months [95.46%]
4,815 Would Have Been Exactly Moore's Law[100%]
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FLASHBACK!!!
2762 New eBooks So Far in 2003
It took us 30 years for the first 2762 !
That's the 37 WEEKS of 2003 as Compared to ~30 YEARS!!!
Here Is A Sample Of What Books Were Being Done Around #2762
Sep 2001 The Koran/The Q'uran, by Mohammed/Mohammad . . . [koranxxx.xxx] 2800
[Author Also As: Muhamad/Muhammad/Mohomet] [See also eBooks #3434 and 7440.]
Sep 2001 Eben Holden, by Irving Bacheller [bnhldxxx.xxx] 2799
Sep 2001 The Queen Of The Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte[BH#45][qotpixxx.xxx] 2798
Sep 2001 The Wolves and the Lamb, by William M Thackeray 22[wlvlmxxx.xxx] 2797
Sep 2001 The Yellowplush Papers, by Wm. M. Thackeray WMT#21[yloplxxx.xxx] 2796
Sep 2001 Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray[yloplxxx.xxx] 2796
Sep 2001 Bob Son of Battle, by Alfred Ollivant [bsonbxxx.xxx] 2795
Sep 2001 Found At Blazing Star, by Bret Harte [Harte #44][fabstxxx.xxx] 2794
Sep 2001 Flip: A California Romance, by Bret Harte [BH #43][flpcrxxx.xxx] 2793
Sep 2001 My Ten Years' Imprisonment by Silvio Pellico [mytenxxx.xxx] 2792
Sep 2001 Essays and Tales, by Joseph Addison [Addison #1] [etaddxxx.xxx] 2791
Aug 2001 The Poems of Hristo Botev/Our First Bulgarian Book[botevxxx.xxx] 2790
Aug 2001 The Motor Girls on A Tour, by Margaret Penrose [tmgotxxx.xxx] 2789
Aug 2001 Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott [L. M. Alcott #6][ltlmnxxx.xxx] 2788
Aug 2001 An Old-fashioned Girl, by Louisa May Alcott[LMA#5][ofgrlxxx.xxx] 2787
Aug 2001 Jack and Jill, by Louisa May Alcott [LM Alcott #4][jandjxxx.xxx] 2786
Aug 2001 The Elusive Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy[Orczy #3][lsvpmxxx.xxx] 2785
Aug 2001 Colonel Starbottle's Client, by Bret Harte[BH #42][strbtxxx.xxx] 2784
Aug 2001 The Trampling of the Lilies, by Rafael Sabatini #9[ttotlxxx.xxx] 2783
Aug 2001 Wilhelm Tell, by Johann Friedrich von Schiller [wtellxxx.xxx] 2782
[AKA: William Tell] [Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller]
Aug 2001 Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling [Kipling #15][jusssxxx.xxx] 2781
Aug 2001 My Life and My Efforts, Autobiography by Karl May [kmlaexxx.xxx] 2780C
[German Title: Mein Leben und Streben][Language: English]
Aug 2001 Mein Leben und Streben, Autobiography by Karl May [kmlusxxx.xxx] 2779
[English Title: My Life and My Efforts][Language: German]
(Note: #2780 is the copyrighted English translation of #2779, expressly
(made for Project Gutenberg, copyright by Gunther Olesch.)
Aug 2001 Jewel, by Clara Louise Burnham [jewelxxx.xxx] 2778
Aug 2001 Cabbages and Kings, by O Henry [O Henry #10][ckngsxxx.xxx] 2777
Aug 2001 The Four Million, by O Henry [O Henry #9] [4millnxx.xxx] 2776
Aug 2001 The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford [gsldrxxx.xxx] 2775
Aug 2001 The Patrician, by John Galsworthy [JG #13][ptrcnxxx.xxx] 2774
Aug 2001 Fraternity, by John Galsworthy [JG #12][frtrnxxx.xxx] 2773
Aug 2001 The Country House, by John Galsworthy [JG #11][chousxxx.xxx] 2772
Aug 2001 The Island Pharisees, by John Galsworthy [JG #10][ipharxxx.xxx] 2771
Aug 2001 Five Little Peppers And How They Grew, Sidney [#1][5lpepxxx.xxx] 2770
Aug 2001 Cleopatra, by H. Rider Haggard [H. R. Haggard #22][clptrxxx.xxx] 2769
Aug 2001 The Paris Sketch Book, by W. M. Thackeray[WMT #21][?tpsbxxx.xxx] 2768
Aug 2001 The Devil's Paw, by E. Phillips Oppenheim[EPH #10][dspawxxx.xxx] 2767
Aug 2001 The Red Acorn, by John McElroy [rdcrnxxx.xxx] 2766
Aug 2001 The Lady From The Sea, by Henrik Ibsen [Ibsen #7] [ldysexxx.xxx] 2765
Aug 2001 The Mahatma and the Hare, by H. Rider Haggard[#21][tmathxxx.xxx] 2764
Aug 2001 The World's Desire, by Rider [#20], and Lang [#27][wldsrxxx.xxx] 2763
Aug 2001 The Brethren, by H. Rider Haggard [HR Haggard #19][brthnxxx.xxx] 2762
Aug 2001 Benita, by H. Rider Haggard [H. Rider Haggard #18][bnitaxxx.xxx] 2761
Aug 2001 Marquise de Ganges, by Alexander Dumas, Pere[# 27][gangexxx.xxx] 2758
Aug 2001 Vanika, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [Dumas, Pere 26][vaninxxx.xxx] 2757
Aug 2001 Marquise Brinvillier, by Alexander[Dumas, Pere 25][brinvxxx.xxx] 2756
Aug 2001 Murat, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [Dumas, Pere #24][muratxxx.xxx] 2755
Aug 2001 Countess St. Geran, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [#23][geranxxx.xxx] 2754
(Alt. Title: Countess de Saint-Geran, by Alexander Dumas)
Aug 2001 Ali Pacha, by Alexander Dumas, Pere[Dumas Pere 22][alpacxxx.xxx] 2753
Aug 2001 Martin Guerre, by Alexander Dumas, Pere [Dumas 21][mguerxxx.xxx] 2752
Aug 2001 Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexander Dumas, Pere 20 [emaskxxx.xxx] 2751
(This is the essay entitled The Man in the Iron Mask, not the novel)
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***Headline News***
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
From Newsscan:
[Who Was That Masked Man? The One Touting Terabytes For All?]
IBM LAYS OUT PLAN FOR INTELLIGENT BRICKS
Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center are proposing a new type of
computer configuration -- one that involves Lego-like stacking of so-called
Collective Intelligent Bricks to build a customized data storage center.
The bricks are really cubes with edges measuring 20cm and inside each brick
are 12 disk drives, each of which can store 80 gigabytes of data. The
bricks house a processor to run the disks and a chip that enables the
connectors on the outside of the brick to link to other bricks for data
exchange. The transmission rate between connectors is now relatively slow
-- 3 gigabits per second -- but lead scientist Jai Menon is hoping to boost
that to 10 gigabits soon -- a rate comparable to high-speed fiber optic
connections. And while there are still cooling issues to be worked out
(it's hard to keep all those components cool when they're packed so tightly
together), the brick design has one feature that engineers value the most
-- redundancy. If one brick goes bad, the network of connections can be
routed around it to isolate it, and back-up copies of all data can be
stored in multiple bricks to ensure no failure would be catastrophic. (The
Economist 11 Sep 2003)
http://www.economist.com
[It's Only The "Industrial Smoke And Mirrors" eBooks That Are Out,
Those Who Want Huge Profits Without Offering Huge Advantages. . .]
E-BOOKS TAKE A HIT, BUT DON'T COUNT THEM OUT
The future of e-books got slightly more fuzzy last week when Barnes & Noble
announced it was closing down its eBooks store, but industry watchers say
the long-term forecast for the nascent market is still upbeat. And while
today's e-book technology is viewed by many as a solution in search of a
problem, companies like Microsoft, Palm and Adobe stand firmly behind their
investments in the industry. "We think that in the long-term, e-book
technology has a great future. Market acceptance has not taken off quite as
quickly as was predicted, but we are certainly continuing to invest in this
area," says an Adobe spokesman. And while it may be a long wait until the
average consumer turns to e-books for pleasure reading, e-books may
ultimately find their niche with tech-savvy youth accustomed to on-screen
browsing and the burgeoning cohort of retiring baby boomers, predicts
Richard Doherty, research director at Envisioneering Group. "Two audiences
that will benefit best are young people who loathe the idea of a library,
and aging people who want the convenience of large type on demand" and the
freedom from lugging hefty hard copy around. (Reuters 14 Sep 2003)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=2&u=/nm/20030914/
tc_nm/media_ebooks_dc
[Peace In Our Time. . .???] [That's NOT The Chicago Way!!!]
ANTI-SPAM EFFORT WOULD PAY SPAMMERS TO STOP
A new anti-spam service, called Global Removal, is taking a different
approach to fighting spam -- it's proposing to pay spammers for cooperating
with their effort. Internet users fed up with junk e-mail would pay a $5
lifetime fee to have their e-mail addresses put on a Global Removal
do-not-spam list. Addresses on the list would be cross-referenced and
deleted from mailing lists maintained by Global's partners, which include
more than 50 known spammers and an equal number of legitimate e-mail
marketers. These partners would be rewarded for their diligence through an
affiliate program, which would pay $1 for every new subscriber that they
bring to the service. In order to avoid a new flood of spam touting Global
Removal's service, the spammers would be allowed to send only one message
to their purged mailing lists. "Despite the urban legend, these guys don't
really want to keep these names on their lists if they know that the people
aren't going to be receptive to advertising," says Global CEO Tom Jackson.
"They can make more money for less effort through our program." Critics say
the flaw in Global's sales pitch is that subscribers would still receive
junk e-mail from spammers not affiliated with Global and that Global's
spammers could always renege on their deal and go back to their old lists.
One intellectual property lawyer says, "It's a little like paying
protection money to mob bosses. There's precious little assurance about the
comprehensiveness of the protection, or that the prices won't go up at the
whim of the 'bosses.'" Still, if spammers "could be assured some minimum
bit of income by not sending me mail, it's a better deal for them and a
relief to me." (Wired.com 15 Sep 2003)
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60431,00.html
[Can Those Who Draw The Internet Maps Send YOU to .com, .net, or AOL?]
[Remember That Quote: "S/he Who Controls The Agenda Controls Outcome"?]
VERISIGN'S SITE FINDER PROFITS FROM TYPOS
Internet registrar VeriSign has launched a new service, Site Finder, that
offers users who mistype a URL a list of alternative Web sites that they
might be trying to reach. Several ISPs do the same thing -- most notably
AOL and MSN -- but critics say that because VeriSign controls the directory
computers for ".com" and ".net" names, they could easily reroute all
queries to Site Finder. "We put so much of our research into developing
this AOL search result page," says an AOL spokesman. "We are reviewing our
potential options. We are strongly opposed to them interjecting themselves
into our members' search experience." Site Finder's suggestions include
both standard search results and pay-for-placement advertisements, which
are identified as such. But while VeriSign VP Ben Turner says the new
service is designed to "improve overall usability of the Internet," Danny
Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch, warns that Site Finder's
capabilities could also be abused -- by directing users only to
pay-for-placement sites, for instance. Meanwhile, the new service provides
a much-needed new revenue stream for the Internet registrar. "Right now,
VeriSign's business is not a growing business, and anything that they do to
add the slightest amount of growth is going to be positive," says an
analyst with U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. (AP 15 Sep 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030915/D7TJ2U5O0.html
SBC RESISTS SUBPOENAS TO IDENTIFY MUSIC DOWNLOADERS
In another challenge to the recording industry, No. 2 regional phone
company and Internet service provider SBC is refusing to comply with
subpoenas requiring it and other ISPs to turn over to the Recording
Industry Association of America (RIAA) the identities of subscribers
suspected of music copyright infringers. SBC's general counsel James D.
Ellis sees it as a privacy issue: "Clearly, there are serious legal issues
here, but there are also these public policy privacy issues. We have
unlisted numbers in this industry, and we've got a long heritage in which
we have always taken a harsh and hard rule on protecting the privacy of our
customers' information." Matthew J. Oppenheim, a top RIAA executive, says:
"SBC believes that free music drives its business. That's the only
explanation for why they would relitigate issues that have been resolved."
(New York Times 16 Sep 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/09/16/business/media/16SWAP.html
[Then Why Does SBS Relitigate When THEY Lose?]
IM-ING HABITS DIFFER IN U.S., U.K.
Using Instant Messenger at work to flirt with colleagues, complain about
the boss and gossip about co-workers are among the most common IM themes --
at least in the U.K., where 65% of survey respondents say they use IM for
personal purposes during work hours. "If you're leaning forward and typing
away at your machine, who's to know what you're typing about," says Nigel
Hawthorn, whose cybersecurity firm, Blue Coat Systems, conducted a poll of
some 300 firms in the U.K. and the U.S. Half the British respondents
admitted to spicing up their IMs with abusive language; 40% used IM-ing to
conspire with colleagues during conference calls; and nearly a third
confessed to "making sexual advances" via IM. U.S. respondents, meanwhile,
were much more circumspect in their IM habits, with fewer than one in five
using IM to comment on senior management or to flirt. The difference, says
Hawthorn, is probably attributable to the Big Brother syndrome. While
nearly 60% of Brits were pretty sure their bosses couldn't monitor their IM
activities, 71% of U.S. respondents believed -- correctly -- that their IM
messages could be traced back to them. (Reuters 15 Sep 2003)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=9&u=/nm/
20030915/tc_nm/tech_internet_im_col_dc
COMPUTING PRICES ARE WAY TOO HIGH, SAYS MCNEALY
Consumers are paying up to 10 times as much as they should for the
privilege of buying and using computers, according to Sun Microsystems CEO
Scott McNealy, who predicts cheaper prices in the future. "The world has to
be getting a little disappointed in our industry," McNealy told attendees
of the SunNetwork conference. "We are overcharging in our industry by an
order of magnitude," or by up to 10 times. "That cost^E is going to come out
of our industry in the next five to 10 years." The companies most likely to
take a hit are the ones with a vested interest in today's complex computing
environments, such as Microsoft and IBM. Sun's answer to the problem is its
Java Enterprise System for servers and its Java Desktop System, which
offers a Linux-based alternative to Microsoft Windows and Office. Sun hopes
its new products will boost its flagging revenue, which has declined
alarmingly in the last few years. In a demonstration of Sun's new desktop
technology, software executive Jonathan Schwartz showed off a Linux user
interface called "Looking Glass," which treats Windows as 3-D hinged panes
of glass that can be folded back out of the way or made transparent. (CNet
News.com 17 Sep 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-5077619.html
[Moore/More Terabytes]
SERVERS GET PERSONAL
Senior Intel researcher Roy Want has devised a prototype device that the
company's calling a Personal Server -- a matchbox-size PC that can be used
to store personal data and may be accessed by a variety of devices.
"Storage capacity is growing in leaps and bounds," Want told participants
at the Intel Developer Forum. "By 2012 you will be able to carry a device
that could record a lifetime's conversations. It would take about three
terabytes of data to do. To include video, you'd need 97 terabytes, which
is expected to be economically viable at current development rates by
2014." Intel's Personal Server could be controlled by a unit built into a
wristwatch, and would use a wireless link to download prices, timetables
and news from billboards and other public access points. "I would be very
surprised if you don't see devices like this on the market in five years'
time," said Want. (VNUNet 16 Sep 2003)
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1143659
GOODBYE AOL TIME WARNER (WE HARDLY KNEW YE)
Name change. What was trumpeted a couple of years ago as the merger of the
ages, is still (apparently) the merger of the ages, but with an unmerged
name. AOL Time Warner is taking back its old name, plain ol' Time Warner
(stock symbol TWX), and its Internet division, AOL, will be called, not
unreasonably, AOL). Sources in the company (Time Warner, that is) say that
the corporate name change is not a sign that there will be a sale or
spinoff of the America Online division, nor a sign that the company is
close to settling an ongoing SEC investigation into accounting problems at
AOL. (Washington Post 17 Sep 2003)
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ANTI-SPAM LAW WORKING IN SOUTH KOREA
Toughened anti-spam legislation in South Korea is credited with a drop
in that country's incidence of unwanted e-mail. The law was
strengthened in December, raising the limit for monetary damages and
instituting criminal penalties for spammers. The law also forbids
automatic generation of e-mail addresses, harvesting addresses from Web
sites, and circumventing spam blockers with technical measures.
According to data from surveys conducted by the Korea Information
Security Agency, users in March of this year reported that more than 90
percent of commercial e-mail was unsolicited. By July, that number had
fallen to about 70 percent. The survey indicated that in July, each
South Korean user received an average of 41 spam e-mails per day, of
which 35 are considered illegal and 23 are obscene. These numbers
represented decreases of 18 percent, 20 percent, and 27 percent,
respectively, compared to data from March.
InfoWorld, 15 September 2003
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/15/HNkoreaspam_1.html
PAYING OFF THE SPAMMERS
Founders of San Antonio, Texas-based Global Removal believe that the
way to end spam is to offer spammers an economic incentive not to send
unwanted messages. The company offers a subscription service by which
consumers who pay Global Removal $5 will be removed from the mailing
lists of all of the company's partnering organizations, which include
around 100 spammers and legitimate e-mail marketers alike. Partnering
organizations can earn $1 for each new subscriber they draw to the
service. Tom Jackson, CEO of Global Removal, argues that senders of
commercial e-mail would prefer to know who on their lists is not
interested. "They can make more money for less effort through our
program," he said. Critics of Global Removal's approach said it is
flawed because it does not guarantee effectiveness and has no way to
enforce the agreement. Julian Haight of SpamCop.net compared it to
"curing the disease by killing the patient," and Denise Howell, an
intellectual property lawyer, said it was like "paying protection money
to mob bosses."
Wired News, 15 September 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60431,00.html
RESEARCH SAYS MOVIE PIRACY STARTS WITH INSIDERS
Data from researchers at AT&T Laboratories and the University of
Pennsylvania indicate that more than three-quarters of all movies
available on peer-to-peer networks come from movie-industry leaks. The
finding runs counter to the popular notion that most pirated movies
come from unauthorized home reproduction or from in-cinema taping. The
researchers developed software that examined a number of features of
the electronic files, features that can indicate the source of the
file, such as editing, pre- or post-production, or review copies of the
movie. Many pirated movies appear on peer-to-peer networks before they
are released in theaters, and online trading of movies is estimated to
cost the industry as much as $3 billion a year. Pirated VHS and DVD
copies of movies cost the industry an estimated $30 billion annually.
New Scientist, 15 September 2003
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994166
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Nov 2005 A Virtuoso's Collection, by N. Hawthorne [#62][haw62xxx.xxx] 9235
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 The Old Apple Dealer, by N. Hawthorne [#61][haw61xxx.xxx] 9234
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Sketches from Memory, by N. Hawthorne [#60][haw60xxx.xxx] 9233
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Passages from a Relinquished Work, Hawthorne [#59][haw59xxx.xxx] 9232
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Earth's Holocaust, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#58][haw58xxx.xxx] 9231
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 P's Correspondence, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#57][haw57xxx.xxx] 9230
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 The Intelligence Office, by N. Hawthorne [#56][haw56xxx.xxx] 9229
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Christmas Banquet, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#55][haw55xxx.xxx] 9228
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 New Adam and Eve, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#54][haw54xxx.xxx] 9227
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 The Hall of Fantasy, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#53][haw53xxx.xxx] 9226
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Monsieur du Miroir, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#52][haw52xxx.xxx] 9225
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Buds and Bird Voices, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#51][haw51xxx.xxx] 9224
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Fire Worship, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#50][haw50xxx.xxx] 9223
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 A Select Party, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#49][haw49xxx.xxx] 9222
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 The Old Manse, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#48][haw48xxx.xxx] 9221
[From the collection "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Oct 2005 Scientific American Supplement, No. 417,by Various[?0417xxx.xxx] 9163
[Title: Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XVI, No. 417., December 29,1883]
[Also posted illustrated HTML - 8041710h.zip; and 8041710h.htm]
Oct 2005 Becket and other plays,by Alfred Lord Tennyson[#7][?beckxxx.xxx] 9162
Contents:
Becket
The Cup
The Falcon
The Promise Of May
Oct 2005 Comedy of Marriage & Other Tales, Maupassant [#23][?cmarxxx.xxx] 9161
[Full author: Guy De Maupassant]
Contents:
La Paix Du MTnage
Musotte
Addenda
The Lancer's Wife
Hautot Senior And Hautot Junior
No Quarter
The Orphan
A Lively Friend
The Blind Man
The Impolite Sex
The Cake
The Corsican Bandit
The Duel
Oct 2005 Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts, Lessing[#9][?mensxxx.xxx] 9160
[Full author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Philotas, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [#8][?phtsxxx.xxx] 9159
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Fabeln und Erzaehlungen, Gotthold Eph. Lessing[#7][?fblnxxx.xxx] 9158
[Full author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Miss Sara Sampson, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing[#6][?saraxxx.xxx] 9157
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Life and Remains of John Clare, by J. L. Cherry [lfremxxx.xxx] 9156
[Subtitle: "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"]
Contents:
Letters From His Friends And Contemporaries,
Extracts From His Diary,
Prose Fragments, Old Ballads (Collected By Clare)]
Oct 2005 Heather and Snow, by George MacDonald [hthsnxxx.xxx] 9155
[Also posted HTML - hthsn10h.zip and hthsn10h.htm]
Oct 2005 Salted With Fire, by George MacDonald [sltfrxxx.xxx] 9154
Oct 2005 History of Louisisana, by Le Page Du Pratz [?lsnaxxx.xxx] 9153
[Subtitle: Or Of The Western Parts Of Virginia And Carolina: Containing
A Description Of The Countries That Lie On Both Sides Of The River
Missisippi: With An Account Of The Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate,
And Products.] [Translated from the French; Tr. Unknown]
[Also posted illustrated HTML - 8lsna10h.zip; and 8lsna10h.htm]
Oct 2005 Imogen, by William Godwin [imognxxx.xxx] 9152
[Subtitle: A Pastoral Romance]
[Also posted HTML - imogn10h.zip and imogn10h.htm]
Oct 2005 Ruggles of Red Gap, by Harry Leon Wilson [?rgrgxxx.xxx] 9151
Oct 2005 Dick Sands the Boy Captain, by Jules Verne [8sandxxh.xxx] 9150
[Tr.: Ellen E. Frewer]
[Note: Posted in HTML only - 8sand10h.zip and 8sand10h.htm]
Oct 2005 The Gray Dawn, by Stewart Edward White [?gdwnxxx.xxx] 9149
Oct 2005 Principal Navigations, V7, by Richard Hakluyt[#10][?hk07xxx.xxx] 9148
[Full title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and
Discoveries of The English Nation, v. 7]
[Subtitle: England's Naval Exploits Against Spain]
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Sep 2005 Audio: War of the Classes, Jack London [wrclsxxx.mp3] 9144C
Sep 2005 Audio: The Valley of the Moon, Jack London [vlymnxxx.mp3] 9143C
Sep 2005 Audio: The Red One, Jack London [tred1xxx.mp3] 9142C
Sep 2005 Audio: The People of the Abyss, Jack London [tpotaxxx.mp3] 9141C
Sep 2005 Audio: Tales of the Fish Patrol, Jack London [totfpxxx.mp3] 9140C
Sep 2005 Audio: The Strength of the Strong, Jack London [sstrgxxx.mp3] 9139C
Sep 2005 Audio: The Son of the Wolf, Jack London [snwlfxxx.mp3] 9138C
Sep 2005 Audio: Smoke Bellew, Jack London [smkblxxx.mp3] 9137C
Sep 2005 Audio: Revolution and Other Essays, Jack London [rvlt1xxx.mp3] 9136C
Sep 2005 Audio: The Night-Born, Jack London [ntbrnxxx.mp3] 9135C
Sep 2005 Audio: On the Makaloa Mat and Island Tales, London[mklmtxxx.mp3] 9134C
Sep 2005 Audio: Moon-Face and Other Stories, Jack London [mfacexxx.mp3] 9133C
Sep 2005 Audio: Martin Eden, Jack London [medenxxx.mp3] 9132C
Sep 2005 Audio: Michael, Brother of Jerry, Jack London [mcjerxxx.mp3] 9131C
Sep 2005 Audio: The Little Lady of the Big House, London [ltlbhxxx.mp3] 9130C
Sep 2005 Audio: Lost Face, Jack London [lstfcxxx.mp3] 9129C
Sep 2005 Audio: Love of Life And Other Stories, Jack London[llifexxx.mp3] 9128C
Sep 2005 Audio: Tales of the Klondyke, Jack London [klndkxxx.mp3] 9127C
Sep 2005 Audio: Jerry of the Islands, Jack London [jrislxxx.mp3] 9126C
Sep 2005 Audio: John Barleycorn, Jack London [jbarlxxx.mp3] 9125C
Sep 2005 Audio: The Jacket, Jack London [jaketxxx.mp3] 9124C
Sep 2005 Audio: The Iron Heel, Jack London [irnhlxxx.mp3] 9123C
Sep 2005 Audio: The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii [hsprdxxx.mp3] 9122C
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Sep 2005 Audio: The Faith of Men, Jack London [fthmnxxx.mp3] 9119C
Sep 2005 Audio: The Mutiny of the "Elsinore", Jack London [elsnrxxx.mp3] 9118C
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Sep 2005 Audio: The Cruise of the Snark, Jack London [crsnkxxx.mp3] 9116C
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Oct 2005 The Dare Boys of 1776, by Stephen Angus Cox [drbysxxx.xxx] 9112
[Also posted: HTML in drbys10h.htm/.zip; XML in drbys10x.zip only]
Oct 2005 Die Juden, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [?djdnxxx.xxx] 9110
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002, by Jim Tinsley [pgf2002x.xxx] 9109
[Also posted HTML, zipped only, pgf2002h.zip]
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[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Tales & Novels, Vol. IX, by Maria Edgeworth [#10][?tal9xxx.xxx] 9107
[Contents: Harrington; Thoughts on Bores; Ormond]
Oct 2005 The Elson Readers, Book 5, by William H. Elson[#5][?lsrdxxx.xxx] 9106
[Full author: William H. Elson and Christine M. Keck]
Oct 2005 Reflections and Moral Maxims, by Rochefoucauld [?rochxxx.xxx] 9105
[Full title: Reflections; Or Sentences and Moral Maxims]
[Full Author: Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld]
[Tr.: J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell]
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Oct 2005 The Naval War of 1812, by Theodore Roosevelt [#4][?trnvxxx.xxx] 9104
[Subtitle: The History of the United States Navy during the Last War with
Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans]
[Introduction by Edward K. Eckert]
Oct 2005 Miracles of Our Lord, by George MacDonald [#39][?mircxxx.xxx] 9103
Oct 2005 Run to Earth, by M. E. Braddon [#3][?rrthxxx.xxx] 9102
Oct 2005 Domestic Cookery, by Elizabeth E. Lea [cookhxxx.xxx] 9101
[Title: Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers]
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Oct 2005 My Double Life, by Sarah Bernhardt [#2][?sbhtxxx.xxx] 9100
[Subtitle: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt]
Oct 2005 Der Weinhueter, by Paul Heyse [?whtrxxx.xxx] 9099
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Tacitus and Bracciolini, by John Wilson Ross [?tcbrxxx.xxx] 9098
Oct 2005 Robert's Rules of Order, by Henry M. Robert [?rrorxxx.xxx] 9097
Oct 2005 Weighed and Wanting, by George MacDonald [wwantxxx.xxx] 9096
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Oct 2005 The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 2 [?edg2xxx.xxx] 9095
[Full author: Maria Edgeworth] [Ed.: Augustus J. C. Hare]
Oct 2005 Wild Flowers, by Robert Bloomfield [?wflrxxx.xxx] 9094
[Subtitle: Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry]
Oct 2005 Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs, Robert Bloomfield[ruralxxx.xxx] 9093
Oct 2005 The Farmer's Boy, by Robert Bloomfield [?farmxxx.xxx] 9092
[Subtitle: A Rural Poem]
Oct 2005 Ester Ried Yet Speaking, by Isabella Alden [?erysxxx.xxx] 9091
Oct 2005 Germania and Agricola, Caius Cornelius Tacitus[#4][?gragxxx.xxx] 9090
[Language: Latin and English]
Oct 2005 Handel, by Edward J. Dent [?hndlxxx.xxx] 9089
Oct 2005 Thoroughbreds, by W. A. Fraser [thbdsxxx.xxx] 9088
Oct 2005 Eleanor, by Mrs. Humphry Ward [#2][?elnrxxx.xxx] 9087
Oct 2005 Die Witwe von Pisa, by Paul Heyse [#6][?wtpsxxx.xxx] 9086
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Das Maedchen von Treppi, by Paul Heyse [#5][?mdtrxxx.xxx] 9085
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Ein Ring, by Paul Heyse [#4][?ringxxx.xxx] 9084
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Die Einsamen, by Paul Heyse [#3][?einsxxx.xxx] 9083
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Muistatko, by Juhani Aho [#3][?muisxxx.xxx] 9082
[Language: Finnish]
Oct 2005 The Bacillus of Beauty, by Harriet Stark [?bcilxxx.xxx] 9081
[Subtitle: A Romance of Today]
Oct 2005 Children's Own Longfellow, by Henry W. Longfellow [chlngxxx.xxx] 9080
[Also posted illustrated HTML - chlng10h.zip; and chlng10h.htm]
Oct 2005 The Man Shakespeare, by Frank Harris [?mshkxxx.xxx] 9079
Oct 2005 Sanders' Union Fourth Reader,by Charles W. Sanders[sreadxxx.xxx] 9078
[Also posted HTML - sread10h.zip and sread10h.htm]
Sep 2005 Sri Vishnu Sahasranaamam, Unknown [vsnmexxx.xxx] 9000
[Approximate English title: The 1000 Names Of Lord Vishnu.]
[Language: Sanskrit]
[Transcription by N. Srinivasan and Karthik Krishnan]
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Jul 2001 Medical Essays, by Oliver Wendell Holmes [OWH #9] [medicxxx.xxx] 2700
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Jun 2001 Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series Two [Emily D. #2][2mlydxxx.xxx] 2679
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BARNES & NOBLE SHELVES E-BOOKS
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their technologies for digital book formats and readers. "Sales have been
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that will be the preferred way people read everyday things."
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[A Quite Different Business Plan]
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TINY (AND VERY LIGHT) ELECTRONIC WORDS
Weighty words are less weighty than they used to be, if you use the PDA
version rather than the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary. The print version: 1,664 pages, 3 pounds. The PDA-sized
electronic version, from Franklin Electronic Publishers, weighs just a few
ounces, and will not only spell and define the words, but will speak them
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see the definition displayed on clear monochrome screen display. The
speaking version also supports Franklin's line of electronic books on
snap-in cartridges. Titles can be downloaded from www.franklin.com and
transferred to a cartridge using an optional PC Link
cable.(Courier-Journal/USA Today 10 Sep 2003)
www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/2003-09-10-pda-dictionary_x.htm
'PRE-OWNED' DIGITAL TUNE HITS AUCTION BLOCK
George Hotelling is pushing the envelope in digital music with his attempt
to auction off a song that he purchased on Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Hotelling says he's not concerned about recouping his 99-cent investment in
Devin Vasquez's rendition of "Double-Dutch Bus," but he's interested in
probing the murky legal ground surrounding digital copyrights. "I'd just
like to know that if I buy something, whether it's physical or intellectual
property, that I'll have my right of 'First Sale,'" says Hotelling. The
terms of service contract that accompanies iTunes songs doesn't say much
about the rules that guide resale of songs but does stipulate that the
songs are only for "personal, noncommercial use." One nagging question
concerns the lack of legal guidelines governing the rights of an owner of a
second-hand digital song, says Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney at
the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "If you were to win that auction and
get that song, you have no relationship with Apple. You didn't agree to the
terms of service. What governs that song after you've repurchased it?"
(CNet News.com 3 Sep 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5071108.html?tag=fd_top
RECORDING INDUSTRY OFFERS AMNESTY TO MUSIC-SWAPPERS
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is planning to tell
people who have illegally downloaded copyrighted music from the Internet
that they will not be prosecuted providing they admit what they've done and
pledge to delete the songs from their computers. (The amnesty offer won't
apply, though, to music downloaders who have already been subpoenaed for
RIAA copyright-infringement lawsuits.) Attorney Fred von Lohmann of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation says: "I'll be curious to see how many opt
for this. It will be an interesting measure of how much fear the recording
industry has managed to inject into the American public."
(AP/San Jose Mercury News 4 Sep 2005)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6694357.htm
ON-DEMAND ENTERTAINMENT SET TO REPLACE HARD COPY
In five years, about a third of music sales will come from downloads and CD
sales will drop 30% from their 1999 peak, predicts a new study by Forrester
Research. "On-demand services are the future of entertainment delivery,"
says Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff. "CDs, DVDs, and any other forms of
physical media will become obsolete." Forrester predicts that over the next
nine months, at least 10 Windows-based music services will emerge, boosting
the market for online music to $270 million by the end of 2004. If the
trend continues, digital music sales could account for $1.4 billion of the
music industry's anticipated $12.8 billion in revenues three years from
now. "The CD is turning out to be a transitory sort of item," says Roy
Trakin, senior editor of Hits magazine. "The future of the CD may be in its
enhanced content -- in a hybrid CD-DVD and the more upscale formats like
DVD audio and super audio CDs." Meanwhile, Forrester urges Hollywood to
take note of what's happening in the music industry. By 2007, the research
group estimates that video rental revenues will plummet 37% and by 2008,
overall revenues from DVDs and tapes will drop 8%. "Consumers have spoken
-- they are tired of paying the high cost of CDs and DVDs and prefer more
flexible forms of on-demand media delivery," says Bernoff.(CNN.com 3 Sep 2003)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/09/03/cd.future/index.html
DISNEY TOUTS SELF-DESTRUCTING DVDs
Walt Disney is launching its new, disposable DVD product line today, which
will be available in convenience stores, pharmacies and other outlets in
four U.S. cities. The test will gauge consumer enthusiasm for the EZ-D
format, which will carry a suggested price of $6.99 and are viewable for 48
hours after opening up the package. Once the package is opened, exposure to
oxygen slowly erodes the readability of the disc through a process similar
to the developing of Polaroid film. The plan has drawn criticism from
environmental groups, which say the discs will add needless waste to U.S.
landfills. Disney says there will be some recycling available -- although
not in-store -- and consumers eventually will be able to trade in six used
discs for a free new one. (Reuters/CNN Money 9 Sep 2003)
http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/09/technology/disney_dvd.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes
CASHING IN ON 'TRASH TRAFFIC'
Every day, millions of Web users make typos while keying in URLs -- a
phenomenon referred to as "trash traffic," which resourceful companies like
Microsoft and AOL Time Warner have figured out how to redirect to their
advantage. When a user mistypes an address, she is usually whisked off to
an MSN or AOL Internet search engine (complete with advertisements), which
suggests a list of sites she might have been trying to reach. Users who
click on one of the possibilities might be redirected to a page with
several hyperlinks, some of them ads. But now a group of Internet
registries, including VeriSign, is eyeing the possibilities for monetizing
trash traffic by diverting it their own sites. Internet founding father
Vinton Cerf says such shenanigans could be detrimental to non-Web
applications like e-mail because the registry operators would have to
modify their DNS servers to do things they're not designed to do. "I'm
adamantly opposed to it," says Cerf. (Wall Street Journal 5 Sep 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1062710102434100,00.html (sub req'd)
ARE DATABASES THE NEXT COPYRIGHT BATTLEGROUND?
A proposed bill scheduled for a joint hearing by the U.S. House Judiciary
and Energy and Commerce Committees would prevent the wholesale copying of
news archives, professional directories, and other compilations of factual
information not currently protected by copyright laws. Backers of the
measure say it would prevent groups from simply copying and repackaging
databases to resell them or make them available for free, but the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce and consumer advocates plan to protest the proposed
legislation, arguing that it could dramatically limit the public's access
to information and that database providers can protect themselves through
existing terms-of-service agreements with users. "We think this is already
dealt with under license and contract law, and there's no reason to extend
beyond that," says Joe Rubin, director of congressional and public affairs
at the U.S. Chamber. And while some advocates say the measure would
encourage publishers to make more information available for free, Mike
Godwin, senior technology counsel at Public Knowledge, says the more likely
outcome will be the opposite: "Information, when not copyrighted, is
something that can be shared. Once you start putting fences around
information, there's not freedom of inquiry. That doesn't make us smarter,
it makes us dumber." (Reuters/CNet 5 Sep 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5072206.html
APPLE I RESURRECTED
A Cleveland, Ohio, computer enthusiast has been granted permission to
produce a replica of the Apple I, which he plans to sell out of his garage
for $200 apiece. Vince Briel has been planning his venture for some months,
but was unable to get the okay from Apple to do it. So he did the next best
thing -- he wrote Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak asking his permission to
use the Apple I ROM. "Sure you can use the ROMs," answered Wozniak. "I'm
sure that Apple would deny this request, even though what you are speaking
of is very noble and cannot hurt Apple in any way." Wozniak says he freely
distributed the Apple I's schematics and ROM code at the Homebrew Computer
Club in 1975, long before he and Steve Jobs started selling the machines
from Jobs' parents' garage. Briel says his replica uses different
components from the original, but that it's functionally identical. "I
spent a lot of time trying to get every detail so the replica functions
completely identically to the Apple I. I'm hoping this project generates
interest in creating hardware and exploring computers the way they used to
be. I just want to help people relive the 8-bit computer experience and get
more people involved in the history of computers and collecting."
(Wired.com 8 Sep 2003)
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,60329,00.html
[More Below On This One]
JAPAN, CHINA, SOUTH KOREA SEEK ALTERNATIVES TO WINDOWS
Japan, China and South Korea have agreed to cooperate in an R&D program to
develop software for operating systems other than Microsoft's Windows, and
to encourage the more widespread of use of existing operating systems that
compete with Windows. Japanese trade ministry official Takashi Kume
explains, "The idea is to get existing non-Windows operating systems, such
as Linux, to be more broadly used, rather than developing a totally new
operating system." Besides giving more options to consumers, the
development of non-Windows operating system software would also allow
manufacturers a wider choice of platforms in developing electronics and
information devices. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 9 Sep 2003)
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From Edupage
COLLEGES INVESTIGATE LEGAL FILE SHARING
Members of the Joint Committee of the Higher Education and
Entertainment Communities are working to identify ways to reduce the
illegal sharing of copyrighted files on college campuses, including one
proposal to provide students with legal access to online music.
According to Graham Spanier, president of Pennsylvania State University
and co-chair of the committee, the service would work similarly to
cable television in dorm rooms. Spanier said about a dozen institutions
are considering testing such a program. The committee will not endorse
specific solutions to the problem of illegal file sharing but hopes to
collect educational, technological, and policy resources that parties
from both the higher education and entertainment communities can use to
work toward joint solutions. The other co-chair of the committee, Cary
Sherman of the Recording Industry Association of America, said
"collaborative solutions are the best approach" because university
administrators and entertainment executives "are in this boat together."
Internet News, 2 September 2003
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/3071331
FILE-SWAPPER AMNESTY PROGRAM
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will reportedly
announce an amnesty program next week aimed at individuals willing to
admit having downloaded and shared copyrighted music files. Those who
sign the amnesty form--admitting their past activity and promising to
delete copyrighted files and not to engage in future illegal file
trading--would be shielded from prosecution by the RIAA. The deal will
not be available to any of the more than 1,500 people for whom the RIAA
tas already served subpoenas. Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation noted that because the RIAA does not represent all copyright
owners, the agreement would not protect individuals from prosecution
by other copyright holders. The amnesty offer, von Lohmann said, is
"not the kind of agreement that most people's lawyers will embrace."
San Jose Mercury News, 5 September 2003
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6694357.htm
QUALITY OF ONLINE COURSES EXPECTED TO ECLIPSE IN-CLASS COURSES
A survey conducted by Babson College and the Sloan Consortium indicates
growing respect among some college administrators--including presidents
and chief academic officers--for the quality of online courses.
One-third of the roughly 1,000 survey respondents expect the quality of
online courses at their institutions to surpass that of in-class
courses within three years. Fifty-seven percent said the quality of
Web-based classes already rivals that of in-class teaching. Some
administrators, however, particularly at private baccalaureate
institutions, remain skeptical of online teaching. One-third of the
respondents said Web-based courses would not become a significant part
of the teaching at their institutions.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 September 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2003/09/2003090401t.htm
AUTOMATED ESSAY GRADING: MAKING THE GRADE?
Several companies offer computer tools to grade student essays, and
various schools around the United States, including some colleges and
universities, are using such grading tools to reduce teacher workload
and improve student writing. One tool called Criterion, developed by
the Educational Testing Service (ETS), is being used by Camden County
College in New Jersey. Criterion scores essays based on factors
"learned" from human readers and also provides students with feedback
on grammar, style, usage, and organization. Anthony Spatola, chairman
of the English department at Camden, said students appreciate the
feedback, and he believes the tool helps students improve their
writing. Officials from ETS acknowledged that the system theoretically
could give a high score to an essay that exhibited certain linguistic
characteristics but lacked a logical argument. Students' taking the
time, however, to fool the system is unrealistic, they argued. Such
automated systems have ardent detractors, including Julie Cheville of
Rutgers University and the local director for the National Writing
Project, who said automated grading systems "orient students to errors,
not to meaning." Cheville argued that "Vacuous student essays can
New York Times, 4 September 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/04/technology/circuits/04grad.html
JUDGE ALLOWS POP-UP ADS
A federal judge has ruled in favor of desktop advertising companies,
stating that pop-up advertising does not infringe on the trademarks and
copyrights of Web site publishers and holding individual users
responsible for downloading software that drives pop-up ads. The case
concerned U-Haul moving company's allegation that WhenU violated its
copyrights and trademarks by displaying pop-up advertisements when a
user visited the U-Haul Web site. Although he issued the first ruling
granting adware companies the legal right to serve pop-up ads, U.S.
District Court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee noted that "we computer users
must endure pop-up advertising along with her ugly brother unsolicited
bulk e-mail, spam, as a burden of using the Internet."
Internet News, 8 September 2003
http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/3073741
EFF URGES USERS TO PASS UP RIAA'S AMNESTY OFFER
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has issued a statement warning
users against accepting the recording industry's anticipated but
unconfirmed plan to offer legal amnesty to those who admit to illegal
online file sharing, cautioning that users could still face legal
action. According to Wendy Seltzer, staff attorney for the EFF,
"Stepping into the spotlight to admit your guilt is probably not a
sensible course for most people sharing music files online, especially
since the RIAA [Recording Industry Association of America] doesn't
control many potential sources of lawsuits." The amnesty program is an
alternate tactic the RIAA is considering to prevent illegal file
sharing, pending the outcome of Congressional hearings on the subpoena
provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act--the legal basis of
the RIAA's subpoena campaign against individual file swappers (see the
related story below on the RIAA's filing of 261 lawsuits)--contested
by the EFF and other groups that defend privacy rights.
PCWorld, 8 September 2003
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112362,00.asp
RIAA FILES 261 LAWSUITS
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed 261
lawsuits against alleged file swappers, charging the individuals with
"egregious" copyright infringement. Those targeted were supposedly
sharing 1,000 songs or more through file-swapping networks. The
lawsuits are the first time that copyright laws have been used on a
large scale against individual Internet users, and the RIAA has
promised to file thousands more in the next couple of months. Despite
the RIAA's legal warnings, file swapping on services such as Kazaa
have continued at a brisk pace, reflecting a finding by the Pew
Internet and American Life Project that 67 percent of people
downloading music do not care whether the music was copyrighted or not.
Violators can be held liable for up to $150,000 per violation, although
few of the suits are expected to go to trial. Many defendants are
expected to settle with the RIAA, as did four students the RIAA
previously sued, and several have already agreed to preliminary
settlements of around $3,000 apiece. In tandem with the lawsuits, the
RIAA has been considering a "Clean Slate" amnesty program that will
allegedly protect file sharers who admit to illegal file swapping and
pledge to stop. Both the lawsuits and the amnesty program have come
under attack from various sources, including the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. (See the related story, above.)
ZDNet, 8 September 2003
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5072564.html
[Is MicroSoft Going To Lose The Entire Pacific Rim?]
THREE ASIAN COUNTRIES PLAN WINDOWS COMPETITOR
China, South Korea, and Japan are jointly researching an open-source
software computer operating system to compete with Microsoft Windows.
Current alternatives, such as Linux, will be explored rather than
attempting to build a new system from scratch. The intent is to offer
alternatives to Windows that will allow manufacturers more choice and
help insulate the countries^R systems against cyberattack. The Japanese
government, which spearheaded the project, has already earmarked one
billion yen ($85.5 million). Top officials of the ministries of trade
of the three countries will meet later in September to further discuss
the project.
BBC, 8 September 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3090918.stm
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Mar 2005 Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I, by Samuel Johnson[#9][josh1xxx.xxx] 7780
[Full title: Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I, Comedies]
This series is now available in HTML:
(Note: web6710h.htm is the index and glossary for the entire series, each
book of which have active links from one book to the other and to the index)
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Complete [web67xxx.xxx] 8294
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Revelation [web66xxx.xxx] 8293
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Jude [web65xxx.xxx] 8292
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 3 John [web64xxx.xxx] 8291
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 John [web63xxx.xxx] 8290
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 John [web62xxx.xxx] 8289
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Peter [web61xxx.xxx] 8288
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Peter [web60xxx.xxx] 8287
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): James [web59xxx.xxx] 8286
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Hebrews [web58xxx.xxx] 8285
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Philemon [web57xxx.xxx] 8284
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Titus [web56xxx.xxx] 8283
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Timothy [web55xxx.xxx] 8282
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Timothy [web54xxx.xxx] 8281
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Thessalonians [web53xxx.xxx] 8280
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Thessalonians [web52xxx.xxx] 8279
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Colossians [web51xxx.xxx] 8278
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Philippians [web50xxx.xxx] 8277
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Ephesians [web49xxx.xxx] 8276
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Galatians [web48xxx.xxx] 8275
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Corinthians [web47xxx.xxx] 8274
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Corinthians [web46xxx.xxx] 8273
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Romans [web45xxx.xxx] 8272
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Acts [web44xxx.xxx] 8271
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): John [web43xxx.xxx] 8270
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Luke [web42xxx.xxx] 8269
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Mark [web41xxx.xxx] 8268
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Matthew [web40xxx.xxx] 8267
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Malachi [web39xxx.xxx] 8266
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Zechariah [web38xxx.xxx] 8265
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Haggai [web37xxx.xxx] 8264
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Zephaniah [web36xxx.xxx] 8263
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Habakkuk [web35xxx.xxx] 8262
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Nahum [web34xxx.xxx] 8261
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Micah [web33xxx.xxx] 8260
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Jonah [web32xxx.xxx] 8259
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Obadiah [web31xxx.xxx] 8258
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Amos [web30xxx.xxx] 8257
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Joel [web29xxx.xxx] 8256
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Hosea [web28xxx.xxx] 8255
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Daniel [web27xxx.xxx] 8254
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Ezekiel [web26xxx.xxx] 8253
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Lamentations [web25xxx.xxx] 8252
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Jeremiah [web24xxx.xxx] 8251
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Isaiah [web23xxx.xxx] 8250
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Song of Solomon [web22xxx.xxx] 8249
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Ecclesiastes [web21xxx.xxx] 8248
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Proverbs [web20xxx.xxx] 8247
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Psalms [web19xxx.xxx] 8246
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Job [web18xxx.xxx] 8245
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Esther [web17xxx.xxx] 8244
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Nehemiah [web16xxx.xxx] 8243
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Ezra [web15xxx.xxx] 8242
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Chronicles [web14xxx.xxx] 8241
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Chronicles [web13xxx.xxx] 8240
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Kings [web12xxx.xxx] 8239
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Kings [web11xxx.xxx] 8238
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Samuel [web10xxx.xxx] 8237
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Samuel [web09xxx.xxx] 8236
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Ruth [web08xxx.xxx] 8235
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Judges [web07xxx.xxx] 8234
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Joshua [web06xxx.xxx] 8233
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Deuteronomy [web05xxx.xxx] 8232
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Numbers [web04xxx.xxx] 8231
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Leviticus [web03xxx.xxx] 8230
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Exodus [web02xxx.xxx] 8229
Jun 2005 The World English Bible (WEB): Genesis [web01xxx.xxx] 8228
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were found by David when reading the section "Here Is A Sample Of What
Books Were Being Done. . ." in Part 1, Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments"
section of the Newsletter; other readers are encouraged to do similar
proofing of those old titles.
The following is being re-indexed to clarify the title and author's name
(was "AusgewandertenGoethe"):
Dec 2000 Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten, by Goethe [?untrxxx.xxx] 2420
The following is being re-indexed to correct the "Full title" line:
Sep 2005 Castles and Cave Dwellings,Sabine Baring-Gould[#2][?cavexxx.xxx] 8898
[Full title: Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe]
The following are being re-indexed to included volume numbers:
Sep 2005 Adela Cathcart, Vol. 2, by George MacDonald [7aca2xxx.xxx] 8929
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, vol. 3, Goethe [#30][?wmw3xxx.xxx] 2411
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, vol. 2, Goethe [#29][?wmw2xxx.xxx] 2410
Nov 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, vol. 1, Goethe [#28][?wmw1xxx.xxx] 2409
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, v. 2, Goethe [#27][?ljw2xxx.xxx] 2408
Nov 2000 Die Leiden des jungen Werther, v. 1, Goethe [#26][?ljw1xxx.xxx] 2407
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Nov 2005 The Three Fold Destiny, by N. Hawthorne [#47][haw47xxx.xxx] 9220
[From the collection of stories, "Twice Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Edward Fane's Rosebud, by N. Hawthorne [#46][haw46xxx.xxx] 9219
[From the collection of stories, "Twice Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Footprints on the Seashore, by N. Hawthorne [#45][haw45xxx.xxx] 9218
[From the collection of stories, "Twice Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 The Lilly's Quest, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#44][haw44xxx.xxx] 9217
[From the collection of stories, "Twice Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Night Sketches, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#43][haw43xxx.xxx] 9216
[From the collection of stories, "Twice Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Chippings with a Chisel, by N. Hawthorne [#42][haw42xxx.xxx] 9215
[From the collection of stories, "Twice Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 The White Old Maid, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#41][haw41xxx.xxx] 9214
[From the collection of stories, "Twice Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 The Seven Vagabonds, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#40][haw40xxx.xxx] 9213
[From the collection of stories, "Twice Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 Snow Flakes, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#39][haw39xxx.xxx] 9212
[From the collection of stories, "Twice Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Nov 2005 The Sister Years, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#38][haw38xxx.xxx] 9211
[From the collection of stories, "Twice Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
Oct 2005 Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, William Shakespeare [?ws26xxx.xxx] 9077
[Full title: The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, 1603]
Oct 2005 Scientific American Supplement, No. 433,by Various[?0433xxx.xxx] 9076
[Full title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884]
[Also posted HTML - 8043310h.zip and 8043310h.htm]
Oct 2005 Rico And Wiseli, by Johanna Spyri [?ricoxxx.xxx] 9075
[Subtitle: Rico And Stineli, And How Wiseli Was Provided For]
[Also posted illustrated HTML - 8rico10h.zip; and 8rico10h.htm]
Oct 2005 Stories From Thucydides, by H. L. Havell [?sthuxxx.xxx] 9074
Oct 2005 The Roof of France, by Matilda Betham-Edwards [#2][?rffrxxx.xxx] 9073
Oct 2005 Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2,Boswell, ed. Birkbeck Hill[?jhn2xxx.xxx] 9072
[Full Title: The Life Of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2 of 6]
Oct 2005 The Non-Christian Cross, by John Denham Parsons [crossxxx.xxx] 9071
[Also posted: illustrated HTML - cross10h.zip; and cross10h.htm]
Oct 2005 The Imaginary Invalid, by Moliere (Poquelin) [?maldxxx.xxx] 9070
Oct 2005 Saint Augustin, by Louis Bertrand [?agstxxx.xxx] 9069
Oct 2005 Apu Ollantay, by Sir Clements R. Markham [apuolxxx.xxx] 9068
[Subtitle: A Drama of the Time of the Incas]
Oct 2005 Robert Browning: How To Know Him, W. L. Phelps[#3][?brwnxxx.xxx] 9067
[Full author: William Lyon Phelps]
Oct 2005 Der letzte Zentaur, by Paul Heyse [?zntrxxx.xxx] 9066
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Beatrice, by Paul Heyse [?btrcxxx.xxx] 9065
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Gedichte, by Paul Heyse [?gdctxxx.xxx] 9064
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales, by J. S. Chase[?pnmgxxx.xxx] 9063
[Title: The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions]
[Author: J. Smeaton Chase]
Oct 2005 Sappho, by Franz Grillparzer [?spphxxx.xxx] 9062
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Public Orations of Demosthenes, vol. 2,Demosthenes[?pbd2xxx.xxx] 9061
[Full title: The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2]
Oct 2005 Public Orations of Demosthenes, vol. 1,Demosthenes[?pbd1xxx.xxx] 9060
[Full title: The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1]
Oct 2005 Andrea Delfin, by Paul Heyse [?adlfxxx.xxx] 9059
[Subtitle: Eine venezianische Novelle] [Language: German]
Oct 2005 Ein treuer Diener seines Herrn, Franz Grillparzer [?trdnxxx.xxx] 9058
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Unspoken Sermons, by George MacDonald [#35][sermnxxx.xxx] 9057
[Series I., II., and III.]
Oct 2005 Bad Medicine, by Robert Sheckley [badmdxxx.xxx] 9055C
Oct 2005 The Young Woman's Guide, by William A. Alcott [?ywmgxxx.xxx] 9054
Oct 2005 Poesies du troubadour Peire Raimon, Joseph Anglade[?ptprxxx.xxx] 9053
[Full title: Poesies du troubadour Peire Raimon de Toulouse]
[Language: French]
[Also posted: HTML in 8ptpr10h.htm and 8ptpr10h.zip]
Oct 2005 The Golden Calf, by M. E. Braddon [?calfxxx.xxx] 9052
Oct 2005 Sanine, by Michael Artzibashef [?sannxxx.xxx] 9051
Oct 2005 Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. I., Dodsley [?oeplxxx.xxx] 9050
[Full title: A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I.]
[Full author: R. Dodsley][Edited by W. Carew Hazlitt]
Oct 2005 Libussa, by Franz Grillparzer [?lbssxxx.xxx] 9049
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Ballads, by William Hayley [?bldsxxx.xxx] 9048
[Subtitle: Founded On Anecdotes Relating To Animals]
Oct 2005 The Banks of Wye, by Robert Bloomfield [bkwyexxx.xxx] 9047
Oct 2005 Koenig Ottokars Glueck und Ende, Franz Grillparzer[?ottkxxx.xxx] 9046
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Die Juedin von Toledo, by Franz Grillparzer [?jdtlxxx.xxx] 9045
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 Weh dem, der luegt, by Franz Grillparzer [?whdmxxx.xxx] 9044
[Language: German]
Oct 2005 May Day With The Muses, by Robert Bloomfield [maydaxxx.xxx] 9043
[The following entries (#9001-#9042) are Computer-generated audio
eBooks; each are comprised of multiple .mp3 files, and have corresponding
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Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Extracts From Adam's Diary [xadamxxx.mp3] 9042C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, What Is Man? [wman1xxx.mp3] 9041C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad [trampxxx.mp3] 9040C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Is Shakespeare Dead? [shkddxxx.mp3] 9039C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Adventures of Tom Sawyer [sawyrxxx.mp3] 9038C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective [sawy3xxx.mp3] 9037C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad [sawy2xxx.mp3] 9036C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson [puddnxxx.mp3] 9035C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, The Stolen White Elephant [mtswexxx.mp3] 9034C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Sketches New and Old [mtsnoxxx.mp3] 9033C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Roughing It [mtritxxx.mp3] 9032C
Sep 2005 Audio: Twain, Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion [mtridxxx.mp3] 9031C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Essays on Paul Bourget [mtpbgxxx.mp3] 9030C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Speeches [mtmtsxxx.mp3] 9029C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger [mtmstxxx.mp3] 9028C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories [mtlafxxx.mp3] 9027C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad [mtinnxxx.mp3] 9026C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, How Tell a Story and Others [mthtsxxx.mp3] 9025C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Hadleyburg & Other Stories [mthdbxxx.mp3] 9024C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, The Gilded Age [mtgldxxx.mp3] 9023C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Goldsmiths Friend Abroad [mtgfaxxx.mp3] 9022C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Fennimore Cooper Offences [mtfcoxxx.mp3] 9021C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Those Extraordinary Twins [mtextxxx.mp3] 9020C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, A Dog's Tale [mtdtlxxx.mp3] 9019C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Defense of Harriet Shelley [mtdhsxxx.mp3] 9018C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Double Barrelled Detective [mtdbdxxx.mp3] 9017C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Christian Science [mtcscxxx.mp3] 9016C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, The Curious Republic of Gondour[mtcrgxxx.mp3] 9015C
Sep 2005 Audio: Paine, Ed. The Letters of Mark Twain [mtcltxxx.mp3] 9014C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain Carnival of Crime in Connecticut[mtcccxxx.mp3] 9013C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, A Burlesque Autobiography [mtbbgxxx.mp3] 9012C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, The American Claimant [mtaclxxx.mp3] 9011C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain On the Decay of the Art of Lying[lyingxxx.mp3] 9010C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi [lmissxxx.mp3] 9009C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, A Horse's Tale [hrstlxxx.mp3] 9008C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn [hfinnxxx.mp3] 9007C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg [hdlybxxx.mp3] 9006C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Following the Equator [feqtrxxx.mp3] 9005C
Sep 2005 Audio: Twain, Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven[cptsfxxx.mp3] 9004C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, The $30,000 Bequest [beqstxxx.mp3] 9003C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Recollections of Joan of Arc V2[2prjaxxx.mp3] 9002C
Sep 2005 Audio: Mark Twain, Recollections of Joan of Arc V1[1prjaxxx.mp3] 9001C
Sep 2005 Das Kloster bei Sendomir, by Franz Grillparzer [?klstxxx.xxx] 8999
[Language: German]
Sep 2005 Paris As It Was and As It Is,by Francis W. Blagdon[?parixxx.xxx] 8998
[Subtitle: A Sketch Of The French Capital, Illustrative Of The
Effects Of The Revolution] [Contains Volume I and Volume II.]
[Also posted HTML - 8pari10h.zip and 8pari10h.htm]
Sep 2005 Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles, by John Kirtland [?flrdxxx.xxx] 8997
[Subtitle: A First Latin Reader]
Sep 2005 Practical Suggestions for Mother, Marion M. Miller[sugstxxx.xxx] 8996
[Full title: Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife]
[Full author: Marion Mills Miller]
[Also posted HTML - sugst10h.zip and sugst10h.htm]
Sep 2005 What Katy Did Next, by Susan Coolidge [?kty2xxx.xxx] 8995
[Also posted illustrated HTML - 8kty210h.zip only]
Sep 2005 What Katy Did, by Susan Coolidge [#3][?kty1xxx.xxx] 8994
Sep 2005 The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne [?mislxxx.xxx] 8993
[HTML only: 8misl10h.htm and 8misl10h.htm; no text file provided]
Sep 2005 The Blockade Runners, by Jules Verne [8blokxxx.xxx] 8992
[HTML - 8blok10h.zip and 8blok10h.htm only; no text file provided]
Sep 2005 The Fur Country, by Jules Verne [8furcxxx.xxx] 8991
[HTML - 8furc10h.zip and 8furc10h.htm only; no text file provided]
[The following entries (#8965-#8990) are Computer-generated audio
eBooks; each are comprised of multiple .mp3 files, and have corresponding
*index.html and *readme.txt file.]
Sep 2005 Audio: Jules Verne, The Underground City [ucityxxx.mp3] 8990C
Sep 2005 Audio: Jules Verne, Survivors of the Chancellor [tsotcxxx.mp3] 8989C
Sep 2005 Audio: Jules Verne, The Master of the World [thmstxxx.mp3] 8988C
Sep 2005 Audio: Jules Verne, Michael Strogoff [strgfxxx.mp3] 8987C
Sep 2005 Audio: Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon [moonxxxx.mp3] 8986C
Sep 2005 Audio: Jules Verne, In Search of the Castaways [cstwyxxx.mp3] 8985C
Sep 2005 Audio: Jules Verne, Off on a Comet [cometxxx.mp3] 8984C
Sep 2005 Audio: Verne, Journey to the Interior of the Earth[8jrnyxxx.mp3] 8983C
Sep 2005 Audio: Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days [80dayxxx.mp3] 8982C
Sep 2005 Audio: Verne, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon [800lgxxx.mp3] 8981C
Sep 2005 Audio: Jules Verne, Robur the Conqueror [7robcxxx.mp3] 8980C
Sep 2005 Audio: Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon [5wiabxxx.mp3] 8979C
Sep 2005 Audio: H. G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes [wtslwxxx.mp3] 8978C
Sep 2005 Audio: H. G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance [wchncxxx.mp3] 8977C
Sep 2005 Audio: H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds [warw1xxx.mp3] 8976C
Sep 2005 Audio: H. G. Wells, The Research Magnificent [rschmxxx.mp3] 8975C
Sep 2005 Audio: H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man [nvsblxxx.mp3] 8974C
Sep 2005 Audio: H. G. Wells, Little Wars [ltwrsxxx.mp3] 8973C
Sep 2005 Audio: H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon [fmitmxxx.mp3] 8972C
Sep 2005 Audio: H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau [dmoroxxx.mp3] 8971C
Sep 2005 Audio: H. G. Wells, Twelve Stories and a Dream [12sadxxx.mp3] 8970C
Sep 2005 Audio: H. G. Wells, The War in the Air [wrairxxx.mp3] 8969C
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Sep 2005 Audio: H. G. Wells, The Door in the Wall et al. [tditwxxx.mp3] 8967C
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Sep 2005 Audio: H. G. Wells, Floor Games [flrgmxxx.mp3] 8965C
Sep 2005 Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg, by Franz Grillparzer [?brdzxxx.xxx] 8964
[Language: German]
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Sep 2005 Audio: Stephen Crane, A Girl of the Streets [mgotsxxx.mp3] 8963C
Sep 2005 Audio: O Henry, The Four Million [4millxxx.mp3] 8962C
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[Language: German]
Sep 2005 The Bride of Dreams, by Frederik van Eeden [?bodrxxx.xxx] 8961
[Tr.: Mellie von Auw]
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Sep 2005 Audio: Edith Warton, The Age of Innocence [aginoxxx.mp3] 8958C
Sep 2005 Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by James Gillman [?smtgxxx.xxx] 8957
[Also posted HTML - 8smtg10h.zip and 8smtg10h.htm]
Sep 2005 Literary Remains, Vol. 3, by Coleridge [?rem3xxx.xxx] 8956
[Full title: The Literary Remains Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge]
[Full author: Edited By Henry Nelson Coleridge]
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Sep 2005 Far Above Rubies, by George MacDonald [7fbrbxxx.xxx] 8955
[Also posted HTML - 7fbrb10h.zip and 7fbrb10h.htm]
Sep 2005 Lady Audley's Secret, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon [?lascxxx.xxx] 8954
[Also posted HTML - 8lasc10h.zip and 8lasc10h.htm]
Sep 2005 The Norsk Nightingale, by William F. Kirk [?nrskxxx.xxx] 8953
Sep 2005 Scientific American, Vol. 22, No. 1, by Various [?s022axx.xxx] 8952
[Full title: Scientific American, Vol. 22, No. 1 January 1, 1870]
[Also - HTML version in 8s022a10h.htm and illustrated HTML in 8s022a10h.zip]
Sep 2005 Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26, by Various [?s017zxx.xxx] 8951
[Full title: Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867]
[Also - HTML version in 8s017z10h.htm and illustrated HTML in 8s017z10h.zip]
Sep 2005 Scientific American Supplement, No. 385,by Various[?0385xxx.xxx] 8950
[Full title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883]
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Sep 2005 Rampolli, by George MacDonald [#39][?rampxxx.xxx] 8949
Sep 2005 Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects, by W. Hayley[7psssxxx.xxx] 8948
[Full author: William Hayley]
Sep 2005 Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, Jan 1858, [#3][?01a3xxx.xxx] 8947
[Full title: The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858]
[Full author: Various]
Sep 2005 Life of Cicero, Vol. 1 by Anthony Trollope [?lcc1xxx.xxx] 8945
Sep 2005 The Elect Lady, by George MacDonald [#37][?elldxxx.xxx] 8944
Sep 2005 Adela Cathcart, Vol. 3, by George MacDonald [#36][?aca3xxx.xxx] 8943
[See also: #8892 for Vol. 1, and #8929 for Vol. 2]
Sep 2005 The Last Hope, by Henry Seton Merriman [#9][?lshpxxx.xxx] 8942
[Author Note: Henry Seton Merriman is a pseudonym for Hugh Stowell Scott]
[See also #8493, a different version.]
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Sep 2005 Lord Kilgobbin, by Charles Lever [?kilgxxx.xxx] 8941
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[Full title: An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance]
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[Author Note: Henry Seton Merriman is a pseudonym for Hugh Stowell Scott]
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Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Revelation [wnt27xxx.xxx] 8854
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Jude [wnt26xxx.xxx] 8853
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: 3 John [wnt25xxx.xxx] 8852
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: 2 John [wnt24xxx.xxx] 8851
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: 1 John [wnt23xxx.xxx] 8850
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: 2 Peter [wnt22xxx.xxx] 8849
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: 1 Peter [wnt21xxx.xxx] 8848
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: James [wnt20xxx.xxx] 8847
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Hebrews [wnt19xxx.xxx] 8846
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Philemon [wnt18xxx.xxx] 8845
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Titus [wnt17xxx.xxx] 8844
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: 2 Timothy [wnt16xxx.xxx] 8843
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Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: 2 Thessalonians [wnt14xxx.xxx] 8841
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: 1 Thessalonians [wnt13xxx.xxx] 8840
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Colossians [wnt12xxx.xxx] 8839
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Philippians [wnt11xxx.xxx] 8838
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Ephesians [wnt10xxx.xxx] 8837
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Galatians [wnt09xxx.xxx] 8836
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: 2 Corinthians [wnt08xxx.xxx] 8835
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: 1 Corinthians [wnt07xxx.xxx] 8834
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Romans [wnt06xxx.xxx] 8833
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Acts [wnt05xxx.xxx] 8832
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: John [wnt04xxx.xxx] 8831
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Luke [wnt03xxx.xxx] 8830
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Mark [wnt02xxx.xxx] 8829
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Matthew [wnt01xxx.xxx] 8828
Sep 2005 Weymouth New Testament: Preface and Introductions [wnt00xxx.xxx] 8827
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1) Editorial
Hello,
An absolute heap of reading this week, as you will discover, and we
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2) News
Distributed Proofreaders Update
This is a significant and memorable week for the creative Diaspora of
Distributed Proofreaders. On this day, the third of September, 2003
the DP enterprise has completed and posted it's 2,000th text to
Project Gutenberg. For those who are unfamiliar with the history and
lore of DP it may not be possible to provide an explanation of a
'Special Issue' to mark this event. To those who have been along for a
part or parts of the DP odyssey so far, no such explanation is
necessary. Within this small frame today, we will try to satisfy both
perspectives and explore why there is much more behind all the fanfare
than a nice, round number.
Like all good stories, there has to be a beginning. So where did
Distributed Proofreaders originate from? Well ... a long time ago,
there were these three ships; the Nina; the Pinta and the Santa Maria
... see there was this fellow, who it on 'good account' that if you
sailed due-West for a number of weeks. . .'No...wait! That can't be right?
[Scratches his head, checks his notes: "Let's see now...'Legendary
Islands,' 'Likely Sites of Blackbeard's Treasure,' Ah! 'Longshot
Dreams' That's it!...A..B..C..Ca..'Drats!' 'must have gotten my Ch's
mixed up again?." drifts back.] Okay, it seems there was another
fellow, came along a little later on that island the earlier fellow
eventually bumped into. His name was Charles, and a few years ago an idea came
and entertained him for a while. After some quiet consideration,
instinctive calculation and some sleepless nights, Charles made up his
mind to do something with that idea.
As a young boy, Charles loved his books. When he grew, like many other
wise and hip people in the world, he became a big fan of Project
Gutenberg. The idea of a true World Wide Library filled his mind with
inspired visions. Like an errant knight drawn to Camelot, Charles knew
he had something invaluable to contribute to Michael Hart's grand
quest.
It was just after dawn in the new millennium and a buzz was in the
air, the Internet would indeed become the wonder of wonders in Human
history. It was just then becoming clear that only the truly useful
and practical would survive into the on-line future. Only those
ventures which remained true to the early promise of the medium would
stand on through the great changes about to unfold.
There was one particularly pesky idea which would not let him sleep at
night. This idea stood out amongst all the others, as the most
practical way to help realize the intentions of Project Gutenberg. I
wasn't there at the time, but I have heard it went something like
this: '. . .
What if there were some way to take a book and prepare it so that all
the many tasks of the digitization process were separated into small
parts. If a structure were built that would allow many people to work
on a book project at the same time, it would significantly increase
the speed of the e-book development-creation process.
The validity of this idea is no longer open for discussion. The idea was
pulled down into the physical world and hammered out on the anvil of
trial and error. The noise made by all that banging caught the
attention of over 10,000 people who have registered to the forums of
DP to learn more. Of those individuals, nearly 8,000 have been
inspired enough to give the proofing process a try. With the early
stages of research and development a matter for historians, the rate
at which the productivity of the project steadily grows must silence
the staunchest critic.
Looking at a handful of key figures will give a measurable sense of that success.
Two years ago this month there were less than 100 members within
DP. By September 2002, that number had risen to about 600 members. Two
months later, due to a tidal wave of attention from a Slash-Dot piece
on DP, the membership ranks swelled up into the thousands. While the
initial wave of activity quieted down over time, the number of people
who stayed with the project and the talents they brought with them,
have forever changed DP, and thus Project Gutenberg, for the better.
As head counts don't inform the whole measure of DP's growth, let's go over the
actual output and see what happens in the world when a single person
gives their heart and soul to an idea's manifestation.
Today we saw the 2000th text from DP posted to the PG stacks. Without
looking I can assure you that figure have risen noticeably between the
time these words are written and when you read them. It is a rare day
now that does not see 5 to 10 books posted.
The page counts make the books, and a snapshot tells more than words:
Two years ago - Average Daily Page Total = 260
One year ago - Average Daily Page Total = 1,000
Present day - Average Daily Page Total = 4,100+
There's much to producing a finished book like Hamlet than the proofing process.
The efforts and talents of many people are employed at each stage
development. When the weekly DP column returns to regular size next week, we will
continue to explore each stage and aspect of the creative system that
bears the title of Distributed Proofreaders, but means so much more.
In the weeks ahead, we will also continue to explore this idea that
Charles Franks set sail into this world. There is far more to his
visions for DP than I could ever convey in the frame allowed today. We
will spend some time with him over several issues to come. But now I
think Charles would be the first to say that I have shed too much
light upon his name today and not enough upon the many members of the
DP community, who put well intended and dedicated efforts into making
these 2000 texts possible. It would require an entire other issue to list those names.
To each and all of you, a deeply felt and shared congratulations!
Hold the dream close to your heart and keep it true!
You can make a difference for good in the world. Believe it.
Thierry
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Distributed Proofreaders Forums
This is the place where DPers can ask questions, seek help and advice,
stay in touch and contribute to some of the more light-hearted aspects
of DP if the text gets a bit too heavy going.
There are 12 forums available for DPers. These range from the more
general aspects of the site where announcements are made, through
project discussion, future features, content provision, and forums
threads for every project. there are also forums for software
development on various platforms, as well as cross-platform, and last
but not least, the everything else forum, for all that non-DP but
still interesting stuff that people like to talk about.
Favourite topics include 'The never ending story', 'Most amusing (or
astonishing) text you've come across, which really is a text in itself
and is seriously funny. 'How did you find DP and what makes you come
back' gives a real insight into where DPers come from, and where DP and
indeed Project Gutenberg is being talked about.
As you come to the forums it is sometimes overwhelming to see the
teamwork and comradeship as people tackle problems and targets with
dedication and laughter. This is probably best demonstrated by
Thierry's thread on Sunday night. With six hours of the month of
August to go, and a huge 2000+ pages needed to make the
target, Thierry posted a message that should probably be framed on
every proofreader's wall.
"We have six hours left until September
That's not impossible, if we make a defiant effort together
So...I will stand with you to the last minute...if you'll stand with
me?"
The next few messages are from proofers checking into the forum, and
over the next six hours there are messages from people who have one
eye on a television or video and the other on the screen. Showing a
measure of dedication above and beyond anyone's call of duty, at 3am
Prishan posts the following message
"Just sent a leave request to the office and back to proofing"
A note from Leeann really sums up the feeling of excitement as the
team continues through the night
"My teenage daughters are the ones making the sacrifice tonight...no
checking their e-mail, no I'Ming their friends, they're stopping in
and cheering me on every little while"
And so it continues for a total of nine pages. You really can feel the
excitement. There aren't many threads that make me want to cry, but
this is one. If you are a member of DP, but you haven't checked out
those forums yet, I really recommend it.
Alice
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3) Notes and Queries
Hamlet - First Quarto
Hamlet - when your education has never included Shakespeare, you tend
to wonder why so many children complain that Shakespeare is boring,
and so many adults ignore him. Approaching this review with zero
knowledge possibly puts me at an advantage as I can come to the text
fresh, it also means that I possibily won't understand a thing. Well,
I work for PG, understanding is not a qualification for employment.
So, what do I know. Erm, ..., can't think of a thing. Asks significant
other, 'He's the Danish prince, talks to skulls a lot', ah yes,
Yorick, alas. I remember hearing about this now. So, exactly what is this
text?
Hamlet - First Quarto* was originally published in 1603 as an
unauthorised version. An authorised and differing version appeared in
1604. When a complete folio version of Hamlet was published in 1623,
the publishers declared this 1603 quarto to be 'stolen' and
'deformed'. It is radically different from the estabilished version. I
include at this point a quote from Kathleen O. Irace,
"For many years, scholars believed that Q1 [and the other 'bad
quartos'] was the work of rogue actors who pirated Shakespeare's Hamlet
for a rival company, perhaps selling their script to a pirate printer
or publisher. But analysis of probable reporters ... shows that as many
as twelve actors might have helped in reconstructing the plays --
working from full-length texts like the script behind Folio Hamlet in
at least four of the six plays. Rather than pirate actors foolishly
jeopardising their positions in the most influential theatre company of
the time, the reporters and adapters could instead have been full
members of Shakespeare's company. Like others who have grown to
appreciate the unique features of Q1 Hamlet, I believe it was printed
from a script reconstructed from memories of performances linked to F
[the 'good' folio version] and adapted at the same time -- by members
of Shakespeare's own company on tour. Though we may never recover hard
evidence to support this view, it takes into account both the pattern
of fluctuating correspondence between Q1 and F, and the special
features of the first quarto that continue to fascinate scholars,
actors, directors, and playgoers."
Versions of this text travelled into Europe, this from Jon Ingram,
"It might also be interesting to note that some version of the Q1
text travelled beyond England, as it is closely related to a German
play called 'Der bestrafte Brudermord' ('Fratricide Punished'). In
particular, this German version keeps the name 'Corambus' for the
lieutenant, and is closer in plot to Q1 than to the longer and later Q2
and F texts."
So, a text that might be regarded as unwanted and unloved in other
places gains a small place in the history of DP.
At this point, I feel it is necessary to turn to those beloved
statistics that Michael likes. DP has existed for approximately, 3
years. It posted it's 1,000th text in February this year, less than
six months later it has posted 2,000. Moore's law? I think DP just
wrote it's own.
Alice
Quarto - due to paper size, quarto indicates that the paper was folded
twice to make four sides and eight leaves.
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Shakespeare - a summary
To write the biography of Shakespeare is not an easy issue. The
deficit of direct evidence of his personal life or even authorship of
his work made this task appealing enough for many bright men for the
last 300 years. The Shakespeare's biography study has its own
coryphaeuses, amongst them Edmund Malone and George Stivens in 18th
century, James Orchard-Holywell and Halliwell-Phillipps who published in
1881 and 1887 the series of essays about Shakespeare's life,
and in 20th Å. Ê. Chambers published in 1930 (still another 7 years
to enter public domain ... ) "William Shakespeare. A Study of
Facts and Problems".
All those life-demanding jobs were based on extremely thin bunch of
documents and basic knowledge about the life in rural England at the
end of the 16th century. Besides those who worked in the mainstream
lane of Shakespeare personality indentification, there were many who
looked for unbeaten paths. The two mainly developed versions are
probably the powerful but shy First Lady of England - Queen Elizabeth
and the famous Francis Bacon for some reason wanted to hide himself
under the humble name of merchandiser's son (for curious readers
http://home.att.net/~tleary/). Queen's and Sir Bacon's lifes are well
documented so they are of less interest probably, besides we'll never
know ...
As the biographical turf on Bill Shakespeare is so well trod, we
thought you would enjoy something a little different.
So Ladies and Gentlemen, it pleases us to present:
Ten things You (Probably) Never Knew about William Shakespeare
1- born in house of John Shakespeare, that in the year 1552 paid the fine
of 12 pennies because he didn't clean the piles of dung near his house
2- the chattiest character is Hamlet who has 1569 lines of speech
beating Richard III who utters a mere 1160 lines
3- The shortest Shakespeare play is 'The Comedy of Errors' at 1770
lines
4- Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, 38 plays and 4 poems
5- The first play to be made into a movie was 'King John' in 1899
6- There are no direct descendants of Shakespeare
7- There are six surviving examples of Shakespeare's signature, they
aer all different
8- We don't know what caused Shakespeare to die
9- Shakespeare has been translated into over 30 languages
10- Shakespeare owned a 10% share of the original Globe Theatre
For those whose appetites we did not quite satisfy, you can look
forward to a wonderful work on Shakespeare, written by the
effervescent Frank Harris, which arrived at PG today.
Gali Sirkis & Alice Wood
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