Wednesday, February 02, 2005

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  1. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci (1683)
  2. The Art of War by Sun Zu (1226)
  3. Project Gutenberg "10K" DVD (1086)
  4. Ulysses by James Joyce (861)
  5. How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin (858)
  6. The Real Mother Goose (796)
  7. Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (695)
  8. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (675)
  9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (598)
  10. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) by A. Marsh (552)
  11. Project Gutenberg "Best Of" CD August 2003 (545)
  12. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (542)
  13. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (522)
  14. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (486)
  15. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (485)
  16. Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (480)
  17. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (465)
  18. A Young Girl's Diary by Anonymous (452)
  19. Le Kama Soutra by Vatsyayana (422)
  20. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (404)
  21. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) (401)
  22. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (390)
  23. Hand Shadows to Be Thrown upon the Wall by Henry Bursill (382)

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