Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Wow, it's been a long time since we stumbled across something that's actually famous. What a treat! I'm cheating a little bit here since what Project Gutenberg actually pulled up for us was a Finnish translation of Dorian Gray. But I … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #30
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Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... The Chautauquan, Vol. V. February 1885 by various authors Alright, we've got to start this one by defining what a Chautauqua is for the sake of all you non-Americans. And for the Americans here too, let's be honest. Chautauqua was a unique form of entertainment and education that began … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #29
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Today on Project Gutenberg we have... Massacres of the South---1551-1815 by Alexandre Dumas If you don't know Alexandre Dumas by name, then you know the names of the stories he wrote. Dumas is best known for The Three Musketeers and its sequels and The Count of Monte Cristo, but his body of work stretches far … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #28
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Today on Project Gutenberg we have... East and West: Poems by Bret Harte This is a fascinating find. A contemporary of Mark Twain, Bret Harte was another American writer who penned witty, often satirical tales about life in the West (not that Twain would approve of the comparison; apparently he hated this guy). Harte's area … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #27
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Today on Project Gutenberg we have... Willie Mouse by Alta Tabor This, as you probably expect from the title, is a children's picture book. A Google search can't tell me anything about what year it was published or any trivia on the author. I'm not even sure if the title is supposed to be Willie … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #26
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Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... Sonny by Rick Raphael With a title as short and nondescript as "Sonny," it's all too easy to overlook this short story at first. But the transcriber's note at the beginning of the PG text tells us that this story was originally published in the April 1963 issue of … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #25
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Today on Project Gutenberg we have... Kashmir by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, illustrated by Major E. Molyneux This is an unusual one. We have a non-fiction book today, an entry into the time-honored genre of travel literature. The subject, in case you couldn't tell from the title, is the region of Kashmir. Where and what … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #24
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Today on Project Gutenberg we have... The Film of Fear by Frederic Arnold Kummer About a hundred years ago, just after Sherlock Holmes and just before Hercule Poirot, there was a literary detective called Richard Duvall. You probably haven't heard of him. I certainly hadn't. The author, Frederic Arnold Kummer, wrote a few different stories … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #23
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Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... Heretics and Heresies by Robert Green Ingersoll Well, you can't go wrong with a title like that. It sounds like the best/weirdest Dungeons & Dragons spin-off ever. Okay, so today's book never gets that wild. But it's interesting nonetheless, and its author is an especially interesting guy. Robert Green … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #22
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Today on Project Gutenberg we have... Pleasures of the Telescope by Garrett P. Serviss This book comes to us all the way from 1901. It presents itself as "An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and A Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers." The author, Garrett Putnam Serviss, was actually … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #21
