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The idea behind Project Gutenberg is the production of free electronic versions of classic literature that is no longer covered by copyright laws. The e-texts that they produce are the result of hundreds of hours of volunteer work as well as donations.
To quote from the file header that precedes most of their files:
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Some of the classic PG works that I have downloaded...
Black Beauty - Anne Sewell (128kB)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontė (416kB)
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (1355kB)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving (35kB)
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling (116kB)
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham (145kB)
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (434KB)
War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells (149kB)
These files are all in Zip format. Potentially, newer copies of these works exist, and these can be found at the following Gutenberg FTP sites or any of the other mirror sites. (If in doubt, rather head for the PG home page, http://promo.net.pg, for an excellent search facility and guidance on local FTP mirror sites.)America South AfricaAll of the Project Gutenberg files are pure, unadulterated text. To try to make them easier to read on a PC, I wrote a little freeware app, ETextViewer, to display the files with some features specially designed for reading large text files. For more details click here.
16 February 2002, 18h31 (GMT+2)