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Originally Posted by Patricia
We've already got them in the MR library, if you just want to read them.
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Ernest Bramah's work is out of copyright in Canada, but the only Kai Lung stories on Mobileread are the first two book collections,
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
The Wallet of Kai Lung
because these are also out of copyright in the US, and have been digitised by Project Gutenberg.
There are five other books containing Kai Lung stories (or in one case, a novel told by Kai Lung):
Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
The Moon of Much Gladness (aka The Return of Kai Lung)
Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree
The Specimen Case (contains one Kai Lung story among others)
Kai Lung Six - a collection of six uncollected Kai Lung Stories that appeared in Punch in 1940 and 1941.
As far as I can find, none of these have been digitised by anyone. (If they have - I'd be pleased to receive a copy - it will save me doing the scanning/OCR)
The book I'm working on (untitled at present) will contain the six stories from Kai Lung Six, the story from The Specimen Case, and
four previous uncollected or unpublished stories.
I've just been working on it again tonight - first mechanical run through correcting easy mistakes - OCR spellings, quote marks, etc. Next is a proper read-though to catch less easy mistakes.
In the UK and other +70 countries, the Kai Lung stories are still in copyright until 1 Jan 2013.
The four unpublished stories will be in UK copyright for 25 years after publication.
Once this volume is out, I hope to come to an agreement with the copyright holder to produce editions of the first five books too.