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MINOR ADJUSTMENT TO PG-EU UNIQUE/DUPLICATE TOTALS
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5. Great Britain and Her Queen by Annie E. Keeling (7604)
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8. How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin (6723)
9. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (6708)
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Year: 2007
This Completes - Day: #056/364 | Week: #08 | Month: #02.00
308 days / 44 weeks of the year remaining.
GRAND TOTALS
20,643 [+ 50] PG U.S.
1,482 [+ 5] PG Australia
66 [+ 0] PG Europe 'Unique' | 423 [+ 0] Total (See NOTES)
381 [+ 0] PG PrePrints
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22,572 [+ 55] GRAND TOTAL
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STATISTICS FOR 2007
428 PG U.S.
28 PG Australian
3 PG Europe 'Unique' | 15 Total (See NOTES)
0 PG PrePrints
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459 TOTAL [2007]
13 eBooks REposted to the new filing system.
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* 80 per week in 2006
* 58 per week in 2005
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The Black Star Passes, by John W Campbell 20707
[Illustrator: Jerome Podwil]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/0/20707 ]
[Files: 20707.txt; 20707-8.txt; 20707-h.htm]
Reisherinneringen in Zuid-Celebes, by L. M. van Klaveren 20706
[Full title: Reisherinneringen van een bestuursambtenaar in
Zuid-Celebes]
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1918]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/0/20706 ]
[Files: 20706-8.txt; 20706-h.htm]
Humoresques, by Tristan Klingsor 20705
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/0/20705 ]
[Files: 20705-8.txt; 20705-h.htm]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893, by Various 20704
[Editor: Francis Burnand]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/0/20704 ]
[Files: 20704.txt; 20704-8.txt; 20704-h.htm]
Enfances célèbres, by Louise Colet 20703
[Illustrator: Valentin Foulquier]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/0/20703 ]
[Files: 20703-8.txt; 20703-h.htm]
General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, by James MacQueen 20702
[Full title: A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam,
Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts
of the World]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/0/20702 ]
[Files: 20702.txt; 20702-8.txt; 20702-h.htm]
Viamos e não veremos, by Anonymous 20701
[Subtitle: alegoria moral, acompanhada de outras diversas maximas
relativas a nossa liberdade constitucional]
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/0/20701 ]
[Files: 20701-8.txt]
Etudes sur la Littérature Française au XIXe siècle, by Alexandre Vinet 20700
[Subtitle: Madame de Staël; Chateaubriand]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/0/20700 ]
[Files: 20700-8.txt; 20700-0.txt]
Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's, by Sophie May 20699
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/9/20699 ]
[Files: 20699.txt; 20699-h.htm]
The Story of Glass, by Sara Ware Bassett 20698
[Illustrator: C.P. Gray]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/9/20698 ]
[Files: 20698.txt; 20698-8.txt; 20698-h.htm]
Prairie Folks, by Hamlin Garland 20697
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/9/20697 ]
[Files: 20697.txt; 20697-h.htm]
Highways & Byways in Sussex, by E.V. Lucas 20696
[Illustrator: Frederick Griggs]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/9/20696 ]
[Files: 20696.txt; 20696-8.txt; 20696-0.txt; 20696-h.htm]
The Spirit of Sweetwater, by Hamlin Garland 20695
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/9/20695 ]
[Files: 20695.txt; 20695-8.txt; 20695-h.htm]
Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation, by Thorstein Veblen 20694
[Full title: An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its
Perpetuation]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/9/20694 ]
[Files: 20694.txt; 20694-8.txt; 20694-h.htm]
The Jungle Baby, by G. E. Farrow 20693
[Illustrator: E. M. Taylor
M. F. Taylor]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/9/20693 ]
[Files: 20693.txt; 20693-h.htm]
Paavo Nissinen, by Gustaf Henrik Mellin 20692
[Subtitle: Kuvaelmia viimeisestä Suomen sodasta]
[Translator: Antti Jalava]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/9/20692 ]
[Files: 20692-8.txt]
The Tory Maid, by Herbert Baird Stimpson 20678
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/7/20678 ]
[Files: 20678.txt; 20678-8.txt; 20678-h.htm]
The Oahu College at the Sandwich Islands, by Punahou School 20669
[Full Author: Trustees of the Punahou School and Oahu College]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/6/20669 ]
[Files: 20669.txt; 20669-h.htm]
Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, by R.V. Russell 20668
[Full title: The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India
- Volume IV of IV]
[Subtitle: Kumhar-Yemkala]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/6/20668 ]
[Files: 20668.txt; 20668-8.txt; 20668-h.htm]
A Canyon Voyage, by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh 20667
[Subtitle: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the
Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations
on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/6/20667 ]
[Files: 20667.txt; 20667-8.txt; 20667-h.htm]
The Debs Decision, by Scott Nearing 20666
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/6/20666 ]
[Files: 20666.txt; 20666-8.txt; 20666-h.htm]
De Nederlandsche Nationale Kleederdrachten, by Th. Molkenboer 20665
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/6/20665 ]
[Files: 20665-8.txt; 20665-h.htm]
Traduction nouvelle, Tome II, by Aristophane 20664
[Subtitle: Les Oiseaux; Lysistrata; Les Thesmophoriazouses ou les
femmes aux Fêtes de Dèmètèr; Les Grenouilles; Les
Ekklèsiazouses ou l'Assemblée des Femmes; Ploutos]
[Commentator: Sully Prudhomme]
[Translator: Eugène Talbot]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/6/20664 ]
[Files: 20664-8.txt; 20664-h.htm]
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner, by Joseph Coppinger 20663
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/6/20663 ]
[Files: 20663.txt; 20663-8.txt; 20663-h.htm]
The Measurement of Intelligence, by Lewis Madison Terman 20662
[Subtitle: An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the
Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon
Intelligence Scale]
[Editor: Ellwood P. Cubberley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/6/20662 ]
[Files: 20662.txt; 20662-8.txt; 20662-h.htm]
The Romance of an Old Fool, by Roswell Field 20661
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/6/20661 ]
[Files: 20661.txt; 20661-8.txt; 20661-h.htm]
The Faith of Islam, by Edward Sell 20660
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/6/20660 ]
[Files: 20660.txt; 20660-8.txt; 20660-h.htm]
Ministry of Disturbance, by Henry Beam Piper 20659
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/5/20659 ]
[Files: 20659.txt; 20659-8.txt; 20659-h.htm]
En Pere i altres contes, by Claudi Planas i Font 20658
[Language: Catalan]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/5/20658 ]
[Files: 20658-8.txt]
Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb 20657
[Illustrator: Arthur Rackham]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/5/20657 ]
[Files: 20657.txt; 20657-8.txt; 20657-h.htm]
Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving, by Irving 20656
[Full author: Washington Irving]
[Illustrator: R. Caldecott]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/5/20656 ]
[Files: 20656.txt; 20656-8.txt; 20656-h.htm]
The Emma Gees, by Herbert Wes McBride 20655
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/5/20655 ]
[Files: 20655.txt; 20655-8.txt; 20655-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20051015214708mcbride]
Fantasia of the Unconscious, by D. H. Lawrence 20654
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/5/20654 ]
[Files: 20654.txt; 20654-8.txt; 20654-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: gbn0407040915]
Checking the Waste, by Mary Huston Gregory 20653
[Subtitle: A Study in Conservation]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/5/20653 ]
[Files: 20653.txt; 20653-8.txt; 20653-h.htm]
Ring O' Roses, by Anonymous 20652
[Subtitle: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book]
[Illustrator: L. Leslie Brooke]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/5/20652 ]
[Files: 20652.txt; 20652-h.htm]
A Jolly Fellowship, by Frank R. Stockton 20651
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/5/20651 ]
[Files: 20651.txt; 20651-8.txt; 20651-h.htm]
Left End Edwards, by Ralph Henry Barbour 20650
[Illustrator: Charles M. Relyea]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/5/20650 ]
[Files: 20650.txt; 20650-8.txt; 20650-h.htm]
Oomphel in the Sky, by Henry Beam Piper 20649
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/4/20649 ]
[Files: 20649.txt; 20649-8.txt; 20649-h.htm]
The De Coverley Papers, by Joseph Addison and Others 20648
[Subtitle: From 'The Spectator']
[Editor: Joseph H. Meek]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/4/20648 ]
[Files: 20648.txt; 20648-8.txt; 20648-h.htm]
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862, by Various 20647
[Subtitle: Devoted to Literature and National Policy.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/4/20647 ]
[Files: 20647.txt; 20647-8.txt; 20647-h.htm]
The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2), by Alphonse Daudet 20646
[Commentator: Brander Matthews]
[Translator: George Burnham Ives]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/4/20646 ]
[Files: 20646.txt; 20646-8.txt; 20646-h.htm]
The Family and it's Members, by Anna Garlin Spencer 20645
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/4/20645 ]
[Files: 20645.txt; 20645-8.txt; 20645-h.htm]
The Book of Hallowe'en, by Ruth Edna Kelley 20644
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/4/20644 ]
[Files: 20644.txt; 20644-8.txt; 20644-h.htm]
The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin, by Turner 20643
[Full author: Frederick Jackson Turner]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/4/20643 ]
[Files: 20643.txt; 20643-8.txt; 20643-h.htm]
The Assemble of Goddes, by Anonymous 20642
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/4/20642 ]
[Files: 20642-8.txt; 20642-h.htm]
Through Three Campaigns, by G. A. Henty 20641
[Subtitle: A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti]
[Illustrator: Wal Paget]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/4/20641 ]
[Files: 20641.txt; 20641-h.htm]
Le Râmâyana - tome second, by Valmiky 20640
[Subtitle: Poème sanscrit de Valmiky]
[Translator: Hippolyte Fauche]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/4/20640 ]
[Files: 20640-8.txt; 20640-0.txt; 20640-h.htm]
La gran rivale, by Luigi Gualdo 20639
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20639 ]
[Files: 20639-8.txt]
From Plotzk to Boston, by Mary Antin 20638
[Commentator: Israel Zangwill]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20638 ]
[Files: 20638.txt; 20638-8.txt; 20638-h.htm]
Liederkranz, by Ulrich von Schlippenbach 20637
[Subtitle: Dem Andenken der verstorbenen Frau Herzogin Dorothea
von Kurland geweiht]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20637 ]
[Files: 20637-8.txt; 20637-h.htm]
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Feb 2007 Smothered in Corpses, Ernest Bramah [070029xx.xxx] 1482A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700291.txt or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700291h.html
Feb 2007 The Winter Murder Case, S S Van Dine [070028xx.xxx] 1481A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700281.txt or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700281h.html
Feb 2007 The Valley of Ghosts, Edgar Wallace [070027xx.xxx] 1480A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700271.txt or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700271h.html
Feb 2007 And Now Tomorrow, Rachel Field [070026xx.xxx] 1479A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700261.txt or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700261h.html
Feb 2007 The Woman Ayisha, Talbot Mundy [070025xx.xxx] 1478A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700251.txt or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700251h.html
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Random House has introduced a search tool on its Web site that will make available a small portion of text from 5,000 of its new and backlist titles, the company announced yesterday. As much as 10 percent of each book, typically a front cover, introduction and first chapter, will be accessible on the Random House Web site (randomhouse.com) by clicking on the individual book and entering keywords. Several thousand more titles will be added to the database this spring, and the company hopes to eventually allow searching across all books, rather than just within an individual title. Publishers have been scrambling to compete with Google Book Search and Amazon, which both offer free digitized book content. HarperCollins introduced a similar browsing tool on its Web site (harpercollins.com) last week.
A brilliant historian and writer, he made sense of the world for television audiences.
Keith Kyle, who has died aged 81, was a distinguished historian and a prolific writer and broadcaster with an extraordinary capacity for making sense out of complex, politically sensitive scenarios. Those who watched him on the BBC Tonight programmes in the 1960s could not fail to be impressed by his broadcasts from Kenya and the Congo during the critical years of African independence.
An award-winning children’s book has been banned from some US schools and libraries because it contains the word “scrotum”.
Susan Patron’s The Higher Power of Lucky, which won this year’s prestigious Newbery Medal for children’s literature, has incurred the wrath of teachers and librarians over a passage on the opening page in which a character describes where a rattlesnake has stung his dog. Schools in several states are refusing to stock the book, which is intended for readers of nine to 12 years, and the controversy has unleashed a flurry of debate on scholastic and literary websites.
Europe is more likely to be agonising about its future, but now it is the past that is proving contentious. Yesterday it emerged that Germany was hoping to exploit its EU presidency to promote a new school history book for the European Union.
At a meeting in Heidelberg next week of EU education ministers, Berlin is to push for the publication of the book on the history of the EU to be used as a standard text in all 27 member countries.
Following is an excerpt from the Introduction of the Accessible Digital Media guidelines produced by WGBH. These guidelines, providing step-by-step solutions for making a variety of electronic media accessible to users with sensory disabilities and are available free of charge.
Accessible Digital Media
Design Guidelines for Electronic Publications, Multimedia and the Web
Properly designed e-books, software, Web sites and learning management systems can and must be accessible to all users with disabilities. Technology is prevalent everywhere, and learners of all ages and in all fields require equal access to content to keep pace with their colleagues and classmates.
Whether they are high school students, IT professionals or research chemists, inaccessible materials prevent people with disabilities from using the same materials at the same time as their peers, and can limit their educational and career opportunities.
Electronic publishing is replacing print, changing reading as well as society.
Cavemen used charcoal to write on walls. Ancient Egyptians scrawled hieroglyphics on papyrus scrolls. Medieval monks penned illuminated manuscripts on parchment. Then Johannes Gutenberg changed the world with movable type, making writing available to all.
Now a revolution is under way that is rapidly making ink on paper obsolete. Books as we know them are dead, many experts say.
But questions go unanswered as technology advances. How can we preserve the world’s knowledge in rapidly evolving electronic formats? How can copyrights be protected when books can be duplicated in the blink of an eye?
It would appear that Sony has reached some kind of unpublicized settlement with the FTC? concerning their “RootKit” malware the corporation used in its music CDs last year, that was basically a virus that then left their victims open to more viruses.
Sony agreed to pay a fine of $4.5 million and up to $150 to any person who could prove damages, but I’ll bet that will be quite like the MCI rebates I signed up for and never got. I did know someone who actually went through all the hassle for the price- fixing rebates among the majority of major CD makers, but there the actual payout for ALL the CDs in question was somewhere not outside the $10-$20 range, only worth it if you framed a check, and put it on the wall next to the CD case.
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Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775, Abraham Tomlinson 20636
[Subtitle: With Numerous Illustrative Notes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20636 ]
[Files: 20636.txt; 20636-8.txt; 20636-h.htm]
Une fête de Noël sous Jacques Cartier, by Ernest Myrand 20635
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20635 ]
[Files: 20635-8.txt; 20635-h.htm]
The Sleeping Bard, by Ellis Wynne 20634
[Subtitle: or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell]
[Tr.: George Borrow]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20634 ]
[Files: 20634.txt; 20634-h.htm]
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock 20633
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20633 ]
[Files: 20633.txt; 20633-8.txt; 20633-h.htm]
Molly Brown's Orchard Home, by Nell Speed 20632
[Author AKA: Emma Speed Sampson]
[This is one for the indexers to ponder. This is the 6th of the 8
books of the Molly Brown series. The first 4 books were written
by Nell Speed.
After her death, her sister, Emma Speed Sampson, wrote the last 4
books of the series (including this book) using her dead sister's
name.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20632 ]
[Files: 20632.txt; 20632-8.txt; 20632-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060821183510speed]
Chosen Peoples, by Israel Zangwill 20631
[Subtitle: Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered
before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on
Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20631 ]
[Files: 20631.txt; 20631-8.txt; 20631-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060713200156zangwill]
The Borough Treasurer, by Joseph Smith Fletcher 20630
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/3/20630 ]
[Files: 20630.txt; 20630-8.txt; 20630-h.htm]
Torchy As A Pa, by Sewell Ford 20629
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20629 ]
[Files: 20629.txt; 20629-h.htm]
Torchy and Vee, by Sewell Ford 20628
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20628 ]
[Files: 20628.txt; 20628-8.txt; 20628-h.htm]
Torchy, Private Sec., by Sewell Ford 20627
[Illustrator: F. Foster Lincoln]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20627 ]
[Files: 20627.txt; 20627-8.txt; 20627-h.htm]
Torchy, by Sewell Ford 20626
[Illustrator: George Brehm]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20626 ]
[Files: 20626.txt; 20626-8.txt; 20626-h.htm]
Young Americans Abroad, by Various 20625
[Subtitle: Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland,
Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland]
[Editor: J.O. Choules]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20625 ]
[Files: 20625.txt; 20625-8.txt; 20625-0.txt; 20625-h.htm]
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance, by Various 20624
[Subtitle: Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series]
[Editor: Frank Sidgwick]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20624 ]
[Files: 20624.txt; 20624-8.txt; 20624-h.htm]
Mademoiselle de Cérignan, by Maurice Sand 20623
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20623 ]
[Files: 20623-8.txt; 20623-0.txt; 20623-h.htm]
The Kentucky Ranger, by Edward T. Curnick 20622
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20622 ]
[Files: 20622.txt; 20622-h.htm]
Novelleja I, by Samuli Suomalainen 20621
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20621 ]
[Files: 20621-8.txt]
Rosemary, by Josephine Lawrence 20620
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/2/20620 ]
[Files: 20620.txt; 20620-8.txt; 20620-h.htm]
General Gordon, by J. Wardle 20619
[Subtitle: Saint and Soldier]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20619 ]
[Files: 20619.txt; 20619-h.htm]
The Boy Land Boomer, by Ralph Bonehill 20618
[Subtitle: Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma]
[Illustrator: W. H. Fry]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20618 ]
[Files: 20618.txt; 20618-h.htm]
Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass", by An Old Scout 20617
[Subtitle: and, How Arietta Paid the Toll]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20617 ]
[Files: 20617.txt; 20617-h.htm]
The Old Front Line, by John Masefield 20616
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20616 ]
[Files: 20616.txt; 20616-8.txt; 20616-h.htm]
The Master-Knot of Human Fate, by Ellis Meredith 20615
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20615 ]
[Files: 20615.txt; 20615-8.txt; 20615-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060715165627meredith]
The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns, by Finlay 20614
[Author: Roger Thompson Finlay]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20614 ]
[Files: 20614.txt; 20614-8.txt; 20614-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060603131150finlay]
Über Psychoanalyse, by Sigmund Freud 20613
[Subtitle: Fünf Vorlesungen]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20613 ]
[Files: 20613-8.txt; 20613-h.htm]
Fort Amity, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 20612
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20612 ]
[Files: 20612.txt; 20612-h.htm]
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo, by E. Phillips Oppenheim 20611
[Illustrator: Will Grefé]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20611 ]
[Files: 20611.txt; 20611-8.txt; 20611-h.htm]
Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper, Martin Farquhar Tupper 20610
[Editor: W. C. Armstrong]
[Contents:
The Crock Of Gold
The Twins
An Author's Mind
Heart
Probabilities]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/1/20610 ]
[Files: 20610.txt; 20610-8.txt; 20610-h.htm]
The Voyageur and Other Poems, by William Henry Drummond 20609
[Illustrator: Frederick Simpson Coburn]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20609 ]
[Files: 20609.txt; 20609-8.txt; 20609-h.htm]
How to Get on in the World, by Major A.R. Calhoon 20608
[Subtitle: A Ladder to Practical Success]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20608 ]
[Files: 20608.txt]
Rembrandt, by Josef Israels 20607
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20607 ]
[Files: 20607.txt; 20607-8.txt; 20607-h.htm]
The Magic City, by Edith Nesbit 20606
[Illustrator: H. R. Millar]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20606 ]
[Files: 20606.txt; 20606-h.htm]
Audio: Christmas Short Works Collection 2006 by Various 20605
[Audio reading by Sean McKinley, Douglas Nathaniel Williams, Susan Denney,
Alan Davis-Drake, Judy Bieber, acclivity, Esther, Ezwa, Henry Figon,
Kristin Hughes, Kara Shallenberg, Simon Taylor, Matthew Walton,
Betsie Bush, David Barnes, William Coon, Karen Savage, Jemma Blythe,
Dave Ranson, Linda Wilcox, Dan Threetrees, Laura M.D., Fernashes,
Ellen King, The Two Bears ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20605 ]
[Files: 20605.txt; 20605-mp3.mp3; 20605-ogg.ogg; 20605-m4b.m4b; 20605-spx.spx]
Audio: Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection by Various 20604
[Audio reading by Douglas D. Anderson ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20604 ]
[Files: 20604.txt; 20604-mp3.mp3; 20604-ogg.ogg; 20604-m4b.m4b; 20604-spx.spx]
Audio: Christmas Carol Collection 2006 by Various 20603
[Audio reading by Karen Savage, Kara Shallenberg, Diyan, Alan Drake and
Irene Takiris with Friends, Claire Goget, Kim Butler, Kristin Hughes,
SKVE ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20603 ]
[Files: 20603.txt; 20603-mp3.mp3; 20603-ogg.ogg; 20603-m4b.m4b; 20603-spx.spx]
Audio: Cobb's Anatomy by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb 20602
[Audio reading by Carl Vonnoh, III ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20602 ]
[Files: 20602.txt; 20602-mp3.mp3; 20602-ogg.ogg; 20602-m4b.m4b; 20602-spx.spx]
Audio: Chamber Music by James Joyce 20601
[Audio reading by Annie Coleman ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20601 ]
[Files: 20601.txt; 20601-mp3.mp3; 20601-ogg.ogg; 20601-m4b.m4b; 20601-spx.spx]
Audio: The Card by Arnold Bennett 20600
[Audio reading by Andy Minter ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/6/0/20600 ]
[Files: 20600.txt; 20600-mp3.mp3; 20600-ogg.ogg; 20600-m4b.m4b; 20600-spx.spx]
Audio: The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde 20599
[Audio reading by David Barnes ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20599 ]
[Files: 20599.txt; 20599-mp3.mp3; 20599-ogg.ogg; 20599-m4b.m4b; 20599-spx.spx]
Audio: Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts by Frank Richard Stockton 20598
[Audio reading by Denny Sayers, Esther, Kevin McAsh, Sandra in
Wales, United Kingdom, Gesine, Aaron Teiser, Kara Shallenberg,
Bruce Stafford, Michelle Crandall, Linda Wilcox, Cori Samuel,
Claire Goget ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20598 ]
[Files: 20598.txt; 20598-mp3.mp3; 20598-ogg.ogg; 20598-m4b.m4b; 20598-spx.spx]
Audio: The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde 20597
[Audio reading by Linda Leu ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20597 ]
[Files: 20597.txt; 20597-mp3.mp3; 20597-ogg.ogg; 20597-m4b.m4b; 20597-spx.spx]
Audio: The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde 20596
[Audio reading by John Gonzalez ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20596 ]
[Files: 20596.txt; 20596-mp3.mp3; 20596-ogg.ogg; 20596-m4b.m4b; 20596-spx.spx]
Audio: The Awful German Language by Mark Twain 20595
[Audio reading by Rainer ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20595 ]
[Files: 20595.txt; 20595-mp3.mp3; 20595-ogg.ogg; 20595-m4b.m4b; 20595-spx.spx]
Audio: The Art of War by Sun Tzu 20594
[Audio reading by Moira Fogarty ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20594 ]
[Files: 20594.txt; 20594-mp3.mp3; 20594-ogg.ogg; 20594-m4b.m4b; 20594-spx.spx]
Audio: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery 20593
[Audio reading by rachelellen ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20593 ]
[Files: 20593.txt; 20593-mp3.mp3; 20593-ogg.ogg; 20593-m4b.m4b; 20593-spx.spx]
Audio: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung 20592
[Audio reading by Kristin Hughes ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20592 ]
[Files: 20592.txt; 20592-mp3.mp3; 20592-ogg.ogg; 20592-m4b.m4b; 20592-spx.spx]
Audio: Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 20591
by William Butler Yeats
[Audio reading by Alan Davis-Drake, Annie Coleman, Betsie Bush, Diyan, Ezwa,
Glen Hallstrom, Justin Barrett, Lizzie Driver, Rebecca Dekker ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20591 ]
[Files: 20591.txt; 20591-mp3.mp3; 20591-ogg.ogg; 20591-m4b.m4b; 20591-spx.spx]
Letters and Lettering, by Frank Chouteau Brown 20590
[Subtitle: A Treatise With 200 Examples]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/9/20590 ]
[Files: 20590.txt; 20590-8.txt; 20590-h.htm]
Edgar Allan Poe, by Hanns Heinz Ewers 20589
[Subtitle: Die Dichtung, Band XLII]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20589 ]
[Files: 20589-8.txt; 20589-0.txt; 20589-h.htm]
The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island, by Roger Thompson Finlay 20588
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20588 ]
[Files: 20588.txt; 20588-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060603093816finlay]
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965, by Morris J. MacGregor Jr. 20587
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20587 ]
[Files: 20587.txt; 20587-8.txt; 20587-h.htm]
In The Yule-Log Glow--Book 3, by Various 20586
[Subtitle: Christmas Poems from 'round the World]
[Editor: Harrison S. Morris]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20586 ]
[Files: 20586.txt; 20586-8.txt; 20586-h.htm]
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, by Thomas Carlyle 20585
[Full title: Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the
Heroic in History]
[Contributor: W. H. Hudson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20585 ]
[Files: 20585.txt; 20585-8.txt; 20585-h.htm]
Tribes and Castes, Central India--Vol. I (of IV), by R.V. Russell 20583
[Full title: The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of
India--Volume I (of IV)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20583 ]
[Files: 20583.txt; 20583-8.txt; 20583-h.htm]
You Should Worry Says John Henry, by George V. Hobart 20584
[Author AKA: George Vere Hobart (1867-1926)]
[Ill.: Edward Carey]
[George Vere Hobart (1867-1926) also wrote under the pseudonym
Hugh McHugh. There are several works in the PG library listed for
Hugh McHugh.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20584 ]
[Files: 20584.txt; 20584-8.txt; 20584-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20061001070511hobart]
Garatujas, by Joaquim de Melo Freitas 20582
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20582 ]
[Files: 20582-8.txt]
Trovas do Bandarra, by Gonçalo Anes Bandarra 20581
[Subtitle: natural da Villa de Trancoso, Nova ed.]
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/5/8/20581 ]
[Files: 20581-8.txt]
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Feb 2007 The Crimson Circle, Edgar Wallace [070024xx.xxx] 1477A
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Feb 2007 You Can't Go Home Again, Thomas Wolfe [070023xx.xxx] 1476A
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A rare edition of John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath has sold for $47,800 (£24,380), doubling the estimated price and setting what is believed to be a world record for a book by the Nobel Prize-winning author.
The sale was part of an auction of first editions previously owned by Steinbeck’s sister, Elizabeth Steinbeck Ainsworth, who died in 1992. Most of the books carried personal inscriptions, raising their value as sought-after “association copies” and providing valuable nuggets of information for Steinbeck scholars. A copy of Tortilla Flat, a tale of the paisano polulation of Monterey, California, bore the inscription “For my dear sister Elizabeth, without whom I should never have known the people about whom this book is written.”