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PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA

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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER - September 2008 [includes details of ebooks
placed online during August 2008]

Dear Avid Reader,

Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the
copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing
ebooks mentioned in this newsletter.

CONTENTS:

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* News and Reviews

* Last month's postings

* Other Information (including details of how to unsubscribe)

NEWS AND REVIEWS

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HISTORICAL "FACTION"

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Recently we have posted a few historical novels by Marjorie Bowen
(http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-a-m.html#bowen
) [Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Bowen
] and Helen Simpson
(http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#simpsonh
) [Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_de_Guerry_Simpson
]. These authors write of notable personalities of the past in a way
which makes it easy to understand them and the times in which they
lived.

Both authors are very accomplished writers. Bowen's first novel, "The
Viper of Milan" (http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800181h.html
) drew praise from English author Graham Greene who wrote "I think it
was Miss Bowen's apparent zest that made me want to write. One could
not read her without believing that to write was to live and enjoy."

Bowen's subjects include Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
(http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800641.txt
); and Emma (Lady Hamilton) and Lord Nelson
(http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800711h.html
).

Simpson was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
for "Boomerang" (http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800611h.html
), which the Wikipedia article on her describes as "a long rambling
novel beginning in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century,
wandering all over the world, including Australia, and ending in the
trenches in France during the 1914-18 war." Historical characters
treated in her other works include Henry VIII (a forthcoming title at
PGA); Mary and Philip II of Spain
(http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800681h.html
); and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
(http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800831h.html
)

Wikipedia has an interesting article on historical novels at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_novel
. The works of many authors are mentioned. And, (hang it, I WILL
start this sentence with a conjunction) Project Gutenberg in the US
has an ebook written in 1902, "Best Historical Novels and Tales" by
Jonathan Nield (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/bhnat10.txt
). The Anchorage Public Library has a page "HISTORICAL FICTION: An
annotated list of historical novels for children and teens" at
http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/guides/kids/booklists/historicalfiction=
/
. Many of the titles mentioned seem to be modern works about past
times.

BANNED BOOKS

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The Online Books Page, a wonderful online resource which catalogues
more than 30,000 ebooks available on the internet
(http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
) has a page on "banned books" at
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html
. This is a very interesting article, long and detailed, so I won't
repeat it here, except to quote the first sentence:

"Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been the objects
of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here,
ranging from "Ulysses" to "Little Red Riding Hood" have been selected
from the indexes of The Online Books Page.

I have had my share of email from people wanting me to remove ebooks
from the PGA site, including Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf"
(http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt
) to Katherine Mayo's "Mother India."
(http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300811h.html
) I can only tell the correspondents that I don't play the part of
censor.

I noticed, when looking at the ebook of "Mother India" that it could
do with some reformatting. It has page numbers and we usually don't
retain page numbers in our ebooks. I will place it on my "to-do" list
and give it some attention some time.

Another ebook which at one time needed some reformatting is "Ulysses"
by James Joyce, mentioned above in the quotation from the Banned Books
article at the Online Books Page. I, myself, placed this ebook at
Project Gutenberg (US) some years ago, after finding an online copy
at a web site which no longer exists. The ebook file needed quite a
bit of work, to meet PG's formatting standards, and I must confess
that I became "burned out" with it and just sent it along to PG in a
less than perfect state. I told myself that it was preferable for the
book to be available rather than not.

Coincidentally, only a few weeks ago I had need to refer to that
ebook of "Ulysses" to check a quotation. I noticed that a great deal
of work had been done on it by one or more volunteers. A html
version, complete with words italicised, as in the original, is now
available. Furthermore, the text version, which originally
represented italicised words in upper case, has been reformatted to
represent italicised words between underscores, as is the present
practice at Project Gutenberg. One is reluctant to mention volunteers
by name, but David Widger is one volunteer who has done amazing work
at PG (see http://www.gutenberg.net.au/widger/home.html
) and it is he who has recently done a final check and renumbered it
and posted the book to the updated file directory system at PG. This
checking and renumbering is an ongoing process. (See
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4300
)

This is a diversion from the subject of banned books. However, the
Online Books Page article covers the topic comprehensively. It is
worthwhile, I believe, to provide an insight into what goes on behind
the scenes at PGA and PG. The ebooks don't magically appear. They are
produced and maintained by a dedicated group of (mostly anonymous)
volunteers. As Eric Gibson said, in The Wall Street Journal,
"Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism."

FIRST PARAGRAPHS

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Here are the first paragraphs from two works at PGA. They might whet
your appetite to read the ebooks.

* * *

A swirl of wet leaves from the night-hidden trees decorating the
little station beat against the closed doors of the carriages. The
porter hurried along holding his blear-eyed lantern to the different
windows, and calling the name of the township in language peculiar to
porters. There was only one ticket to collect.

--Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100141.txt

* * * * *

There was once a South Sea Island supercargo named Denison who had a
Kanaka father and mother. This was when Denison was a young man. His
father's name was Kusis; his mother's Tulp=E9. Also, he had several
brown-skinned, lithe-limbed, and big-eyed brothers and sisters, who
made much of their new white brother, and petted and caressed and
wept over him as if he were an ailing child of six instead of a tough
young fellow of two-and-twenty who had nothing wrong with him but a
stove-in rib and a heart that ached for home, which made him cross
and fretful.

--Pacific Tales by Louis Becke
(http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500671h.html
)

LAST MONTH'S POSTINGS

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A list of all the books we provide is available from
http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html
. Check there to see if there are other works by the authors listed
below.

-- AUGUST POSTINGS --

Aug 2008 Poetical Works, James Thomson (1700-1748) [080095xx.xxx]
1677A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800951.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 The Twister, Edgar Wallace [080094xx.xxx] 1676A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800941.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 A Man's Life, Arthur Henry Adams [080093xx.xxx] 1675A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800931.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 She Faded into Air, Ethel Lina White [080092xx.xxx] 1674A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800921.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 Collected Ghost Stories, M R James [080091xx.xxx] 1673A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800911.txt
  or .zip

(A Project Gutenberg Australia compilation)

Aug 2008 A Shilling for Candles, Josephine Tey [080090xx.xxx] 1672A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800901.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 Tommy Cornstalk, J H M Abbott [080089xx.xxx] 1671A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800891.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 Fiction Fields of Australia, Frederick Sinnett
[080088xx.xxx] 1670A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800881.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 The Pet, Ellis Parker Butler [080087xx.xxx] 1669A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800871.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 The Iron Grip, Edgar Wallace [080086xx.xxx] 1668A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800861.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 The Spectre Bride, William Harrison Ainsworth [080085xx.xxx]
1667A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800851.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 Flat 2, Edgar Wallace [080084xx.xxx] 1666A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800841.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 Saraband for Dead Lovers, Helen Simpson [080083xx.xxx] 1665A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800831.txt
  or .zip

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800831h.html

Aug 2008 Et in Sempiternum Pereant, Charles Williams [080082xx.xxx]
1664A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800821.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 The Story of Mary Ancel,Wm Makepeace Thackeray
[080081xx.xxx] 1663A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800811.txt
  or .zip

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800811h.html

Aug 2008 The Woman on the Beast, Helen Simpson [080080xx.xxx] 1662A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800801.txt
  or .zip

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800801h.html

Aug 2008 The Man of Science, Jerome K Jerome [080079xx.xxx] 1661A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800791.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 When the Gangs Came to London, Edgar Wallace [080078xx.xxx]
1660A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800781.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 The Judge's House, Bram Stoker [080077xx.xxx] 1659A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800771.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 Again the Ringer, Edgar Wallace [080076xx.xxx] 1658A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800761.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 To be Taken with a Grain of Salt, Charles Dickens
[080075xx.xxx] 1657A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800751.txt
  or .zip

Aug 2008 The Drift Fence, Zane Grey [080074xx.xxx] 1656A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800741.txt
  or .zip

OTHER INFORMATION

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Newsletter Editor: Colin Choat

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