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Old 10-31-2015, 10:38 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb View Post
So .... this being All Hallow's Eve, I decided to re-read "All Hallow's Eve" again. This is at least the third time, and with re-reading and more world history and life under my belt, it is beginning to make more sense.

Charles Williams died in 1945. Is this book now public domain??? I have a PRC derived from Gutenberg (I think) from 2008, which is in dreadful shape. It has sentences missing, etc. I looked at Amazon's for-sale book, but a 2013 review said that it is also very flawed, so I didn't buy it. I also have the book I just read, the paperback (DTB) that I bought in 1976 when I was required to read it for a class on the Inklings. For Wheaton College, while on a Wheaton in England (London and Oxford) tour. At age 18, it was eerie, but went *way* over my head!

Anyway ... I'm ready to re-read it immediately, and correct the text file from the DTB in my hands, if anyone else is capable of converting the text file into all the other formats that MR offers ebooks in. Dr Drib, I know you were interested in it in 2008, and were lamenting the poor copy that Gutenberg had.

Is this now permissible? Is anyone willing to do the other half of the work, if I correct the flat text file? Calibre created a flat text file for me, from the PRC that I have.

PS I have 4-5 others of Charles Williams', in DTB format, bought at the same time. In case there is interest in others. Although I read an ebook format (I think) of "Descent Into Hell" a while ago and found it not lacking.
The University of Adelaide has done a fantastic job formatting every public domain book I've downloaded from its website; I imagine Charles Williams' books, such as All Hallow's Eve, would be no different.
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