Hi guys, Just to keep you all updated on progress: We are at 496 French books at the moment. Marcel Proust's Sodome et Gomorrhe 1 will come out of DP shortly and should be in time to become the official number 500, if that's okay with the rest of the PG community. Kind regards, Miranda Miranda van de Heijning wrote:
My intention is to continue A la recherche du temps perdu on DP-EU and hopefully, one of the other PG sites will be able to publish them.
After that, we just need to wait for US copyright to move along a few years and then PG-US will have the full lot as well. :-)
Miranda
Michael Hart wrote:
Don't forget, all of Proust can be posted at Project Gutenberg sites with "life +50" and +70 copyrights, since he died so long ago.
Michael
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Miranda van de Heijning wrote:
Hi all,
I have just looked through the download info which Marcello very kindly compiled for me and I would like to suggest we post as the 500th book part 1 of 'Sodome et Gomorrhe'.
It is part of Proust's classic A la recherche du temps perdu and the only remaining volume which we can actually post to PG. This is because the other parts of the series were published after his death, between 1923 and 1927. We already have Sodomo et Gomorrhe 2.
Sodome et Gomorrhe 1 is close to finishing proofing at Distributed Proofreaders (162 pages to go in round 2) so I expect it will be available for post-processing/posting soon.
Or are there any other suggestions?
Miranda
Greg Newby wrote:
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:23:03AM +0000, Miranda van de Heijning wrote:
Hi guys,
There are 485 French books in PG at the moment, so we will be reaching 500 pretty soon. Has any thought been given yet about what could be the 500th book? If no decision has been made, there are quite a few George Sand's coming up from DP and they may be suitable, considering that we are working on providing her complete works.
I don't think anyone has suggested one yet. Sands sounds like a good choice. We also have a nice array of Jules Verne and Victor Hugo, and I've noticed some Shakespeare translations.
Secondly, are there any statistics on which are the most popular French books? I know that Le Kama Soutra is quite a crowdpleaser, but what about the rest?
There's a "top 100" list at http://gutenberg.org/catalog There is also a non-public analysis of the download statistics. Both of these are for ibiblio only, so while they're useful they don't represent other download sources (notably, our many mirrors).
You'd need to look through the download list "by hand" to spot the French titles. Email if if you want the URL & username+password, and I'll dig it up. -- Greg
Michael Hart wrote:
I sent the <dandelion> address, unless someone has a better one.
Michael
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Alex Wilson wrote:
> About a month ago Greg Newby offered to get me in touch with David > Wyllie--who provided the English translation of Kafka's > Metamorphosis for > PG--and I haven't heard from him since. I'm thinking Greg's > emails or mine > are ending up in a junk mail folder, so I'm wondering if anyone > here knows > how I can get in touch with Mr. Wyllie. > > Thanks. > > Alex. > > http://www.telltaleweekly.org - Funding a Free Audiobook Library > > > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d > > _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d
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