This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for October, 1997 [ To Etext #1057] Well. . .we [I] survived the mad rush to get Etext #1,000 online on schedule, though I must admit I am still at little behind in posting some updated files and answering yesterday's email. . . . You will be receiving a separate note detailing Project Gutenberg's goals for 1998, and beyond, which may have some surprises for you. If you have had the idea of starting a project in your own country, region, or language, this one is a message you won't want to miss. It will be titled: "Project Gutenberg Needs Your Help!" and should be coming to you next week. *** As you will notice below, we are completing our collection of Oscar Wilde and would like to hear from you if you have any Wilde materials we have not filed for downloading yet. In addition, you will notice that we have started releasing Shakespeare, as I promised we would after Etext #1,000, as individual files rather than only as the "The Complete Works." We hope to do several editions, and are forming an Etext Team specifically for Shakespeare. Please let me know if interested. We will also be forming Etext Teams for other specific authors and subjects-- just let me know which you would like. *** Dianne Bean, our Director of Production, has just moved this week and will be out of email touch for a while. Stepping in to help is one of our volunteers from England, David Price , from the University of Coventry. David and Dianne will combine to take my place in November while I am off schmoozing and conferencing on the West Coast, and doing a feasibility study on the possibilities of moving back home to Tacoma, Washington. I will be up and down the coast in November and would love to stop to see as many of you as possible, just let me know. I will be spending most of my time in the Seattle-Tacoma area the first half of the month, and in Silicon Valley and SF Bay Area starting mid-month. *** Here are the 28 Project Gutenberg Etexts currently labelled as September, [and one for October, since this is the first of the month]. Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ### A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work. Oct 1997 Poems, by Oscar Wilde [Etext #16 by Oscar Wilde] [pmwldxxx.xxx]1057 Oct 1997 Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde [re: above][pmwldxxx.xxx]1057 NOTE: [This is a new indexing effort to make it easier to look up shorter materials without having to actually make separate short files. Comments encouraged!!] Sep 1997 Martin Eden, by Jack London [Jack London #10] [medenxxx.xxx]1056 Sep 1997 'Twixt Land & Sea, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad #15] [twxlsxxx.xxx]1055 Sep 1997 A Collection of Ballads, by Andrew Lang [Lang #6] [cbladxxx.xxx]1054 Sep 1997 Within The Tides, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad #14] [wthntxxx.xxx]1053 Sep 1997 Step by Step; or Tidy's Way to Freedom [?Tract #2][tidysxxx.xxx]1052 Sep 1997 Sartor Resartus, by Thomas Carlyle [Carlyle #1] [srtrsxxx.xxx]1051 Sep 1997 Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw[3][dlotsxxx.xxx]1050 Sep 1997 Vanished Arizona, by Martha Summerhayes [varizxxx.xxx]1049 Sep 1997 The Ruling Passion, by Henry van Dyke [van Dyke#2][rlpsnxxx.xxx]1048 Sep 1997 The New Machiavelli, by H. G. Wells [Wells #11] [nmchvxxx.xxx]1047 Sep 1997 God The Invisible King, by H. G. Wells [Wells#10] [godikxxx.xxx]1046 Sep 1997 Venus and Adonis, by William Shakespeare[Shakes#3][wsvnsxxx.xxx]1045 Sep 1997 Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven by Mark Twain[cptsfxxx.xxx]1044 Sep 1997 The Story of Evolution, by Joseph McCabe [tsoevxxx.xxx]1043 Sep 1997 A Reading of Life, Other Poems, by George Meredith[rdlifxxx.xxx]1042 Sep 1997 Shakespeare's Sonnets, by William Shakespeare [#2][wssntxxx.xxx]1041 Sep 1997 The Three Taverns, by Edwin Arlington Robinson[#3][3tavsxxx.xxx]1040 Sep 1997 Missionary Travels in South Africa, by Livingstone[mtravxxx.xxx]1039 Sep 1997 Style, by Walter Raleigh [Walter Raleigh Etext #2][stylexxx.xxx]1038 Sep 1997 The Life of John Bunyan, by Edmund Venables [lfbynxxx.xxx]1037 Sep 1997 Joe Wilson and His Mates, by Henry Lawson [HL#2] [jwahmxxx.xxx]1036 Sep 1997 The Man against the Sky, by Edwin A. Robinson [#2][tmatsxxx.xxx]1035 Sep 1997 Poems, by Wilfred Owen [wowenxxx.xxx]1034 Sep 1997 Rose O' the River, by Kate Douglas Wiggin [KDW#4] [rorvrxxx.xxx]1033 Sep 1997 The Pupil, by Henry James [#14 by Henry James] [pupilxxx.xxx]1032 Sep 1997 Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde[Wilde#15][crmdsxxx.xxx]1031 Sep 1997 Cavalier Songs & Ballads of England, MacKay/Editor[csboexxx.xxx]1030 Sep 1997 The Night-Born, by Jack London [Jack London #9 [ntbrnxxx.xxx]1029 My Apologies: Please note: Due to my somewhat exorbitant efforts to get Etext #1,000 out on schedule, I accidentally posted 36 Etexts in July, and 40 in August. This was pointed out to me in time to fix the August listings, but I just noticed July, and since it is now to late to fix this easily, I will just remedy this by the posting of only 28 Etexts labelled as September, to get us on track. Oops! mh [PS. . .I may change the month labelling later, but not the Etext name/number. 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