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**This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for November, 1993**
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Oct 1993 The World Factbook, US CIA, 1993 Edition (world93x.xxx) 87
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Oct 1993 Beasts of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs [Tarzan #3][tarz310x.xxx] 85
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Index
Mon Year Title/Author [filename.ext] ##
Oct 1993 The World Factbook, US CIA, 1993 Edition (world93x.xxx) 87
Oct 1993 A Connecticut Yankee, Mark Twain, Wiretap [yanke10x.xxx] 86
Oct 1993 Beasts of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs [Tarzan #3][tarz310x.xxx] 85
Oct 1993 Frankenstein/Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [frank10x.xxx] 84
Oct 1993 Frankenstein/Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [frank10a.xxx] 84a
Sep 1993 From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne [moonxxxx.xxx] 83
Sep 1993 Ivanhoe/Scott/OBI/Wiretap [for US Only] [ivnho10x.xxx] 82
Sep 1993 Return of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs [Tarzan #2][tarz210x.xxx] 81
Sep 1993 The Online World/de Presno [Shareware] [online11.xxx] 80
[WARNING! tarz210 and tarz310 were inadverantly reversed and the October
release labeled tarz210 was really tarz310, the titles were correct, just
not the order in which the books were released. If you keep any catalogs
of our books, please make this correction so people will know that Beasts
of Tarzan was actually THIRD in the series].
Please correct all old catalogs and indices to remove the error when this
months Tarzan selection was accidentally releas