On January 1, 2019, the first new published works entered the US public domain in 20 years. Those were all the works first published in 1923. This is an attempt to accumulate a body of works so we can have a big bang of this new material available on New Year's Day.
Works with scans
edit- Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1923) (transcription project)
- A Son at the Front (transcription project) by Edith Wharton
- The Rover (transcription project) by Joseph Conrad
- Fancies versus Fads (transcription project) by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Bengali Religious Lyrics, Śākta (external scan) (external scan), tr. Edward John Thompson and Arthur Marshman Spencer (transcription project)
- "The Dead Man's Tale, by Willard E. Hawkins, published in Weird Tales (transcription project)
- Collected Poems (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2) of John Drinkwater
- Emily of New Moon (transcription project) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Many Marriages (external scan) by Sherwood Anderson
- The Best Plays of 1922-1923 (external scan) by
- John Colton;
- Clemence Randolph;
- Philip Barry (Died 1949);
- John Galsworthy ;
- Owen Davis (Died 1956);
- Jesse Lynch Williams;
- Channing Pollock;
- George Simon Kaufman (died 1961);
- Marc Connelly (died 1980);
- Don Marquis;
- Karel Čapek;
- Rachel Crothers (died 1958);
- Jim Maitland (external scan) by Herman Cyril McNeile
- The Gentleman from San Francisco, and Other Stories (external scan) by Ivan Bunin (died 1953) translated by Leonard Woolf (died 1969) and others.
- The Poetic Edda, translated from the Icelandic by Henry Adams Bellows (external scan)
- The Clue of the New Pin by Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (died 1932) (external scan)
- Mystery at Geneva; an Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Rose Macaulay (died 1958) (external scan)
- A Lost Ladym by Willa Cather (transcription project)
Sources
editWorks with hard-copies available
edit- Weird Tales, volume 1, issue 1. (Modern reprint copy; believed not renewed)
- The Inimitable Jeeves by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (died 1975) (Internet Archive copy is of a later edition)
- Braitwaite's Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1923 and Yearbook of American Poetry, edited by William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite (died 1962)
Desired works
editw:1923 in literature (many of the works noted there have no PD English translation; the below is a selected few)
- Sherwood Anderson – Many Marriages (see above for scans)
- Ivan Bunin — The Dreams of Chang and Other Stories, translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney
- Willa Cather – A Lost Lady (scans above)
- Agatha Christie – The Murder on the Links (died 1976)
- The Sketch magazine has a number of Poirot short stories in the 1923 copies
- Robert Frost (died 1963)
- New Hampshire (transcription project)
- Selected Poems(transcription project)
- Hermann Hesse – Demian (first English-language edition) (died 1962)
- Georgette Heyer (died 1974)
- The Great Roxhythe
- Instead of the Thorn
- The Transformation of Philip Jettan
- D. H. Lawrence
- Kangaroo (transcription project)
- The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird: Three Novellas
- Maurice Renard – New Bodies for Old (first English language edition of Le Docteur Lerne - Sous-Dieu (1908))
- Rafael Sabatini – Fortune's Fool (died 1950)
- Dorothy L. Sayers – Whose Body? (died 1957)
- George Bernard Shaw – Saint Joan (died 1950)
- Jules Verne (died 1905) (first English-language editions)
- The Castaways of the Flag (Translator: Cranstoun Metcalfe)
- The Lighthouse at the End of the World (largely attributed to Michel Verne)(Translator: Cranstoun Metcalfe)
- Listed as 1923 works in Jules Verne bibliography, renewed as 1924 works (R97799, R97800, R97801)
- Edgar Wallace
- Bones of the River
- The Books of Bart
- Captains of Souls
- Chick (short stories)
- The Clue of the New Pin
- The Green Archer (UK 1923; US, renewed 1924)
- The Missing Million
- H. G. Wells – Men Like Gods
- Margaret Widdemer – Graven Image
- William Carlos Williams – The Great American Novel
- P. G. Wodehouse (died 1975)
- The Inimitable Jeeves
- Leave It to Psmith
- Charles Boardman Hawes – The Dark Frigate
- Hugh Lofting – Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (third in the Doctor Dolittle series of 13 books)
- Hugh Lofting – The Story of Mrs Tubbs
- Lucy Maud Montgomery – Emily of New Moon (first in the Emily series of three books)
- Edith Wharton – A Son at the Front (transcription project)
- Rudyard Kipling – His Gift
- Aldous Leonard Huxley (died 1963)
- Antic Hay (transcription project)
- On the Margin, notes and essay (transcription project)
- Edward Bernays – Crystallizing Public Opinion
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton – St. Francis (transcription project)
- Herman Cyril McNeile – The Dinner Club
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald – The Vegetable: Or, from President to Postman
- Richard Austin Freeman (died 1943)
- The Cat's Eye
- Dr. Thorndyke's Casebook (published in USA as The Blue Scarab)
- Abraham Grace Merritt – The Face in the Abyss
- Thomas Sigismund Stribling – Fombombo (transcription project)
- William Butts Mershon – Recollections of My Fifty Years Hunting and Fishing
- Amy Roberta Ruck (died 1978)
- Sir or Madam
- The Dancing Star
- The Idol
- Clemence Randolph – Rain
- John Gresham Machen – Christianity and Liberalism (transcription project)
- Jean Toomer – Cane
- E. E. Cummings (died 1962) — Tulips and Chimneys
- Amos Niven Wilder – Retrospect and Other Poems (transcription project)
- Wallace Stevens – Harmonium (transcription project)
- Google Scholar search for papers published in 1923 sorted by number of citations found. Many have Wikipedia articles about the thesis they introduced.
To be validated
edit- The Choëphoroe (Libation-Bearers) of Aeschylus, translated by George Gilbert Aimé Murray (transcription project)
- The Plays of Roswitha by Hrotsvitha, translated by Christabel Marshall (transcription project)