Wikisource:Requested texts/1924

Works from 1924 (losing US copyright 2020-01-01)

On January 1st, 2020, many published works entered the US public domain. Those were all the works first published in 1924. 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

Fiction

• Richard Connell (US; died 1949)
  • "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924) (transcription project)
• E. M. Forster (UK; died 1970)
  • A Passage to India (transcription project)
• Edited by Stanley Rypins (died 1971)
  • Three old English prose texts in Ms. Cotton Vitellius A XV (external scan)
• Edith Wharton (US; died 1937)
  • Old New York (1924)

    vol. 1 False Dawn (transcription project)

    vol. 2 The Old Maid (transcription project)

    vol. 3 The Spark (transcription project)

    vol. 4 New Year's Day (transcription project)

• Percival Christopher Wren (UK; died 1941)
  • Beau Geste (1924 UK / 1925 US) (external scan)
• H. G. Wells
  • The Dream (transcription project)

Non-fiction

• Johan Huizinga (Netherlands; died 1945)
  • Erasmus and the Age of Reformation, transl. by Frederik Hopman (external scan)
• Harrison R. Hunt (US; died 1978)
  • A Laboratory Manual of the Anatomy of the Rat (transcription project)
• Gilbert Murray (Australia; died 1957)
  • The Rise of the Greek Epic, 3rd ed. (transcription project)
• Lowell Thomas (US; died 1981)
  • With Lawrence in Arabia (transcription project)
• Conway Whittle Sams (US; died 1935)
  • The Conquest of Virginia (transcription project)

Series

• Portal:The Yale Shakespeare
  • Two Gentlemen of Verona, edited by Karl Young (transcription project)
  • The Tragedy of Cymbeline, edited by Samuel B. Hemingway (transcription project)
• Loeb Classical Library
  • Aristophanes: Volume I: The Acharnians. The Knights. The Clouds. The Wasps. (external scan)
  • Aristophanes: Volume II: The Peace. The Birds. The Frogs. (external scan)
  • Aristophanes: Volume III: The Lysistrata. The Thesmophoriasusae. The Ecclesiazusae. The Plutus. (external scan)
• Weird Tales/1924

Sources

• Category:1949 deaths (2020 will mark 70 pma for these authors)
• the Internet Archive
  • the Toronto scans (Canadian PD)
  • 1924 downloadable works
• HathiTrust 1924 collection

Desired works

Literature

w:1924 in literature (many of the works noted there have no PD English translation; the below is a selected few)

• Agatha Christie (Died 1976)
  • The Man in the Brown Suit
  • Poirot Investigates
    • UK edition; US edition has three extra stories and wasn't published until 1925
• Hugh Lofting
  • Doctor Dolittle's Circus
  • Porridge Poetry
• Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • We (1924 US, first publication in English), trans. by Author:Gregory Zilboorg (died 1959 (US))

Poetry

w:1924 in poetry

• When We Were Very Young, by A. A. Milne
• The Sleeping Beauty, by Edith Sitwell
• The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems by W. B. Yeats

Drama

• W. B. Yeats
  • Plays and Controversies (1924)
  • Plays in Prose and Verse (Revised Edition) (1924)

Non-fiction

1924 in non-fiction

• Agnes Mure Mackenzie (died 1955.)
  • The Women in Shakespeare's Plays
• Mark Twain
  • The Autobiography of Mark Twain (start transcription) (start transcription)

w:1924 in philosophy

w:1924 in science

• Article by Edwin Hubble in The New York Times on November 23, 1924 that the Andromeda "nebula" was in fact a galaxy.

Google Scholar search for papers published in 1924 sorted by number of citations found. Many have Wikipedia articles about the thesis they introduced.

To be validated

• Edwin Marion Cox (UK; died 1942)
  • The Poems of Sappho (transcription project)
• Johan Huizinga (Netherlands; died 1945)
  • The Waning of the Middle Ages, transl. into English in 1924 (transcription project)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Tarzan and the Ant Men
• Gertrude Chandler Warner (US; died 1979)
  • The Box-Car Children, ill. by Dorothy Lake Gregory (transcription project) (external scan)
• William Shakespeare
  • The Tragedy of Coriolanus, edited by Tucker Brooke (transcription project)
• W. E. B. Du Bois (US; died 1963)
  • The Gift of Black Folk (transcription project) Done