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Date Posted: 18:22:08 03/07/02 Thu
Author: Larsen
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 199.80.13.202
Subject: free literature digitally republished: Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg website: http://promo.net/pg/

Project Gutenberg is a way to obtain (legally!) literature that is not copyright protected and thus is in the public domain via the internet. (literature text files are compressed and need to be uncompressed using pkzip which is available at the gutenberg website also) The following paragraph is from the FAQ list on the site.

What books will I find in Project Gutenberg?
We cannot publish any texts still in copyright. This generally means that our texts are taken from books published pre-1923. (It's more complicated than that, as our Copyright Page explains, but 1923 is a good first rule-of-thumb for the U.S.A.)

So you won't find the latest bestsellers or modern computer books here. You will find the classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others.

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