Wikisource:Requested texts/1925

On January 1st, 2021, many published works entered the US public domain. Those were all the works first published in 1925. This is an attempt to accumulate a body of likely-popular works so we can have people immediately working on things that interest them, on New Year's Day.

Non-fiction

• The Devil's Coach Horses, by J. R. R. Tolkien (Died 1973) (transcription project)
• Mein Kampf, only in the German - would need dedicated(!) translators to parse it into English
• The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton (transcription project)
• Leninism: Introduction to the Study of Leninism, Grigory Zinoviev
  • In Russian: (external scan)
• The Nun: Her Character and Work, Etienne Lelong (transcription project) (1914 edition)
• A Century of Excavation in Palestine, Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister[1] (Died 1950)
• The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman
• Later Days by W. H. Davies
• William Cobbett by G. K. Chesterton

Novels

• The Professor's House by Willa Cather (transcription project)
• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (transcription project) (transcription project)
• The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
• The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton (external scan)
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms, first English translation (only a small portion
  • v1: Can't find scan Hathi (no full scans, 1959 edition)
  • v2: (transcription project)
• Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley (Died 1963)
  • Index:Those Barren_Leaves - Huxley - 1925.djvu
• The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (Died 1965) (User:Lemuritus pledges to finish this work in January!)
  • Index:The Painted Veil - Maugham - 1925.djvu
• Sam in the Suburbs (US edition; UK title "Sam the Sudden"), by P. G. Wodehouse (Died 1975) UK ed: (external scan) US ed: (external scan)
• Broken Ties and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Childrens

• The Lost King of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson (Died 1976)
• Bluebeard, Cinderella, and other tales, by Charles Perrault, retold by Lloyd E. Smith. (Little blue book, no. 836) (Smith died 1972?)

Short stories

• Hay Fever (Coward) and Fallen Angels, by Noel Coward (Died 1973)
• Carry On, Jeeves, by P. G. Wodehouse (Died 1975) (transcription project)

Poetry

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien), edited by J. R. R. Tolkien (died 1973) (transcription project)
• The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot (died 1965)
  • Various editions and versions, but the best bet for the complete poem is probably Poems 1920-1925, e.g. DLI scan (poor): (external scan)
• Sweet Georgia Brown (song), lyrics by Kenneth Casey (died 1965), tune composed by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard
• A Poet's Alphabet by W. H. Davies
• Come Away, Death by Moeran

Drama

• The Yale Shakespeare
  • The Life of King Henry the Eighth, edited by John Milton Berdan & Tucker Brooke (transcription project)
  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre, edited by Alfred R. Bellinger (died 1978) (transcription project)
• Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neil

Periodicals

• The New Yorker
• The Review of English Studies (volume 1 only) (contains The Devil's Coach Horses, by J. R. R. Tolkien) (transcription project)
  • (external scan) (Hathi, but not full view)

To be Validated

•    Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (died 1970) (transcription project)
•    The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie (Died 1976)
•    Homo-Sexual Life, William J. Fielding (transcription project)
•    The Eumenides (The Furies) of Aeschylus, translated by Gilbert Murray (died 1957)
•    Love's Labour's Lost, edited by Wilbur L. Cross & Tucker Brooke

Validated (Complete)

•    Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (died 1951) (transcription project)
•    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  1925 edition: (transcription project)

  1953 reprint: (transcription project)

•    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (died 1981) (transcription project)
•    Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (transcription project)
• Fairy Tales for Workers' Children by Hermynia Zur Mühlen (died 1951), trans. by Ida Dailies, illus. by Lydia Gibson (transcription project)