Project Gutenberg Press Release

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It will join the following books as landmarks in the development of electronic libraries around the world:

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DateTitle
1
1971The U.S. Declaration of Independence
10
1990The King James Bible
100
 1994The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
1000
1997Dante's Divine Comedy, In Italian
2000
1999Don Quixote, In Spanish
3000
2000A L'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs V3 by Proust, In French
4000
2001The Complete Works of "The French Immortals", In English
5000
2002The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, In English

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5,000 Free EBOOKS!

Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.net) proudly announces the upcoming release of FREE eBook #5000--The Notebooks of Leonardo DiVinci! (You, too, will be able to peruse the pages currently owned by Mr. Microsoft himself--for FREE!)

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