Wikisource:Requested texts/1926

On January 1, 2022, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1926. 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

To be Proofread

• 1926 Encyclopædia Britannica
• History of Witchcraft and Demonology by Augustus Montague Summers (transcription project)
• The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe, ed. by William Byron Forbush (transcription project)
• The Catholic Church and Conversion by G. K. Chesterton [1]
• The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence (transcription project)
• Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney (transcription project)
• Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, tr. by Charles Francis Atkinson (died 1960) Internet Archive identifier: declineofwestfor01spen Internet Archive identifier: declineofwest02spen
• Last Essays by Joseph Conrad (transcription project)
• A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler
• The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language by Suniti Kumar Chatterji (‌1, 2) (India: died 1977)
  • (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• Laws (by Plato), trans. by R. G. Bury 2 (transcription project)
• The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
• The New Korea by Alleyne Ireland
• The Music of the Spheres: A Nature Lover's Astronomy, Florence Armstrong Grondal (transcription project)
• Television: Seeing by Wireless by Alfred Dinsdale. The first book in English on television.
• Aspects of Mexican Civilization by José Vasconcelos
• The Life and Letters of Thomas Jefferson by Francis W. Hirst (transcription project)

To be validated

• Stephensen translation of Lenin's Imperialism (transcription project)

Validated (Complete)

• Why I Am an Infidel by Luther Burbank (Little Blue Book #1040) (renewal R112539) (transcription project)

Novels

To be Proofread

• The Tarzan Twins by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs (transcription project)
• The Land of Mist by Arthur Conan Doyle (transcription project)
• Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner (transcription project)
• The Plumed Serpent by D. H. Lawrence (transcription project)
• A Man Could Stand Up by Ford Madox Ford [2]
• The World of William Clissold by H. G. Wells (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James [3]
• Under the Tonto Rim by Zane Grey (transcription project)
• Fifty Candles by Earl Derr Biggers (renewal R109709) (book version, not magazine version, and with scans and illustrations)
• Beloved Belindy, a Raggedy Ann book by Johnny Gruelle (renewal R111897)
• Sutter's Gold by Blaise Cendrars, tr. by Henry Longan Stuart
• The Works of H. G. Wells Volumes 15–21
• The Red and the Black (1926) trans. by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff
• Against the Grain Anon. tr. of À rebours by Joris Karl Huysmans (HathiTrust), first non-bowdlerized version
• Murder at Smutty Nose and Other Murders by Edmund Lester Pearson
• Cherry Square: A Neighbourly Novel by Grace S. Richmond
• The Law of the Talon by Louis Tracy (transcription project)
• Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten
• The Women's Side by Clemence Dane
• The Seventh Passenger by Alice MacGowan
• The Treasure of the Lake by Henry Rider Haggard (HathiTrust)
• Appassionata by Fannie Hurst

To be Validated

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (transcription project) (1954 printing) Internet Archive identifier: aberms.theSunAlsoRises_images (Alternate First Two Chapters)

Validated (complete)

• My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather (transcription project)
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (transcription project)
• The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway (transcription project)
• Winnie-the-Pooh (1961) by A. A. Milne (died 1956) (transcription project)

Short stories

• "Futility" by Robert E. Howard
  • First published in The Collegian, the newspaper of Daniel Baker College in Brownwood, Texas, May 1926. Scans of this publication are exceedingly hard to come by, and The Portal to Texas History doesn't have this issue; but we do have the (unverified) text of it in the deleted revisions of Futility (Robert E. Howard) (request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it, and move it to the correctly disambiguated name).
  • NB! One of two works by Howard of this name. The other was published in 1937 and begins "Golden goats on a hillside black…". This work begins "Time races on and none can stay the tread…"
• The abbess of Castro, and other tales, by Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) trans. by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (renewal R111432)
• Adventure's best stories, 1926, edited by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman (renewal R110433)
• All the Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (renewal R149513):
  • The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
  • The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
  • The Adventure of the Retired Colourman

To be Validated

• The Adventure of the Three Gables by Arthur Conan Doyle (transcription project)
• The Incredulity of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton (transcription project)

Poetry

• The Song of Love by W. H. Davies
• White Buildings by Hart Crane
• Out Of The Wilderness Wilson MacDonald
• 7 P.M. & other poems by Mark Van Doren
• Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound

To be Validated

• is 5 by E. E. Cummings (transcription project)

Validated

• The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes

Drama

• The Yale Shakespeare

  All's Well That Ends Well, edited by Arthur Ellicott Case (external scan)

  The Comedy of Errors, edited by Robert Dudley French (external scan)

  Measure for Measure, edited by Willard Higley Durham

• Translations and Tomfooleries by George Bernard Shaw
• Discordant Encounters: Plays and Dialogues by Edmund Wilson
• Twelve one-act plays introduction by Walter Prichard Eaton

To be Validated

• Shakespeare of Stratford by Tucker Brooke (transcription project)
• The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, edited by A. M. Witherspoon (transcription project)

Periodicals

• The New Yorker, volume 2

External links

• Public Domain Day, 2022