Pt1 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter

The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter February 11, 2004
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Part 1

In this week's Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter:

1) Editorial
2) News and Comment
3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
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2) News and Comment




Other news this week

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Posted this week the first text from DP-EU. De Zoon van Dik Trom, by
C. Joh. Kieviet 10971 [Language: Dutch]

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As mentioned in part 2 of this weeks newsletter:

Phaethon, by Charles Kingsley 11025
  [Subtitle: Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers]

For those wishing to know: the Rev. Charles Kingsley wrote this fictional
account of Socrates and the youth Phaethon to counter what he saw as a
drift away from traditional church teaching that was taking place in his
age (i.e. the English Victorian era).  Like a number of Kingsley's works
it caused trouble when first published with critics attacking it.


Literary and General Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley            11026

For those wishing to know: another volume from Macmillan and Co.'s Works
of Charles Kingsley.  Odds and ends essays and a tribute to Rev. Frederick
Denison Maurice.  Kingsley was probably the best known of Maurice's
"disciples" and many of Kingsley's famous works seek to expand Maurice's
teachings via the medium of the novel.


O+F, by John Moncure Wetterau                                            11005C

Possibly our shortest title ever






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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features

Romantic Love Literature: Short Essay and Shorter Quiz

By Tonya Allen

Romantic love has been a strong theme in literature from its
beginning. Two of my favorite love stories are among the oldest--the
story of Pyramus and Thisbe, and the story of Baucis and Philemon,
which can both be found in PG's etext of Bulfinch's The Age of Fable.*

PG's collection includes many love stories; a quick search reveals
dozens of titles or subtitles containing the magic word "love". Some
of the latest additions include The Love Affairs of Great Musicians,
Vol. 1 (Vol. 2 will appear shortly), with a lovely HTML edition; The
Garden of Bright Waters: One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems;
The Elegies of Tibullus: Being The Consolations Of A Roman Lover Done
In English Verse; A Love Story, by A Bushman; and Literary
Love-Letters, by Robert Herrick.

For those who find all this hopelessly sentimental, may I recommend
The Dog: A Nineteenth-Century Dog-Lovers' Manual, a Combination of the
Essential and the Esoteric; The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing
The Loves of the Plants; or Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a
Nobleman and His Sister. Let's not forget The Love Sonnets of a Car
Conductor, and The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum, both by Wallace
Irwin. Or how about Malignant Self Love, or Narcissism Book of Quotes,
both by Sam Vaknin.

Sadly, another of my favorite love stories, Pushkin's Yevgeny Onegin,
is not in PG..... yet. For now, one can read the original Russian and
the English translation side by side at this site:
http://www.pushkins-poems.com/Yev001.htm

OK, here comes the quiz, shorter than usual but I hope you enjoy
it. Just match the quotation with the title. It's multiple choice this
time.

1.    It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
      Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear

a) The Song of Solomon   b) Othello  c) Romeo and Juliet  d) Love for Love  e) India's Love Lyrics


2. He got on to the bed, and wrenched open the lattice, bursting, as
   he pulled at it, into an uncontrollable passion of tears.  'Come
   in! come in!' he sobbed.  'Cathy, do come. Oh, do - ONCE more!  Oh!
   my heart's darling! hear me THIS time, Catherine, at last!'  The
   spectre showed a spectre's ordinary caprice:  it gave no sign of
   being; but the snow and wind whirled wildly through, even reaching
   my station, and blowing out the light.


a) The Love-Tiff  b) Wuthering Heights  c) A Phantom Lover  d) Love Among the Chickens


3. The moon was high and magnificent in the August night. Mrs. Morel,
   seared with passion, shivered to find herself out there in a great
   white light, that fell cold on her, and gave a shock to her
   inflamed soul.


a) The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac  b) Women in Love  c) Sons and Lovers  d) Love at Second Sight


4. Et elle restait seduite pourtant, elle songeait invinciblement au
   chevalier Ivanhoe, si passionnement aime de deux femmes, Rebecca,
   la belle juive, et la noble lady Rowena.

a) Une page d'amour  b) Strates amoureuses  c) Amour  d) Ivanhoe


5. Und liebt mich meine Luise noch?  Mein Herz ist das gestrige, ist's
   auch das deine noch?


a)  Nina Balatka  b) Die Laune des Verliebten  c) Kritik der reinen Vernunft  d) Kabale und Liebe


*(All the titles mentioned here are, of course, in the PG collection,
 and can be found using the wonderful new search on this page:
 http://www.gutenberg.net/find.shtml).














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