Wikisource:Requested texts/1928

On January 1st, 2024, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1928. 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

• 20 Hrs. 40 Min. by Amelia Earhart (transcription project)
• Malleus maleficarum (first edition of this translation) by Heinrich Kraemer, translated by Montague Summers (start transcription)
• An elementary middle English grammar (second edition) by Joseph Wright (transcription project)
• The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (1928)
  • Note: The Philosophy of Schopenhauer contains a previous transcription that can be undeleted and may be suitable for match and split once a scan becomes available.
• Do We Agree? by G. K. Chesterton
• The President's Daughter by Nan Britton
• Sons of Africa by Georgina Gollock (transcription project)
• Lives of Eminent Africans by Georgina Gollock
• My Autobiography by Benito Mussolini
• Sceptical Essays by Bertrand Russell (UK: Died 1970)
• The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840–91 by Thomas Hardy (labeled as by his wife, but largely written by himself)
• The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution, by H. G. Wells
• The Way the World is Going: Guesses & Forecasts of the Years Ahead, by H. G. Wells
• The Treason of the Intellectuals by Julien Benda, translated by Richard Aldington (UK: Died 1962)

To be Validated

• Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead (transcription project)
• Satyagraha in South Africa by M. K. Gandhi (transcription project)

Novels

• The Giant Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson (transcription project)
• Bambi by Felix Salten, trans. by Whittaker Chambers (external scan)
• The Children, by Edith Wharton (external scan)
• A Mirror for Witches by Esther Forbes (external scan)
• Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (external scan)
• The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith (not renewed, hence current PD)
• Behind That Curtain by Earl Derr Biggers
• The Flying Squad by W. A. Bishop and R. Stuart-Wortley
• The Sword of Wood by G. K. Chesterton
• Dark Princess by W. E. B. Du Bois
• Winter Sonata, by Dorothy Edwards
• Deluge by S. Fowler Wright
• Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
• Statius (Loeb edition) by Statius, trans. J. H. Mozley
• The Masqueraders, by Georgette Heyer (UK: Died 1974)
• Point Counter Point, by Aldous Leonard Huxley (UK: died 1963)
• Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island, by H. G. Wells
• Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth (first book in the Miss Silver series (UK: Died 1961)
• Meet the Tiger by Leslie Charteris (first appearance of Simon Templar, "The Saint") (UK: died 1993)
• The Greene Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine
• Boston by Upton Sinclair
• The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
• Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
• Green Fire by John Taine
• Hunting for Hidden Gold by Leslie McFarlane
• The Shore Road Mystery by Leslie McFarlane
• Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes
• Ryder by Djuna Barnes
• The Man Who Knew Coolidge by Sinclair Lewis
• The Plains of Abraham by James Oliver Curwood
• Quicksand by Nellallitea Larsen
• Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
• Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
• Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney Field
• We Are Incredible by Margery Latimer
• The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen (1927) (UK/Ireland: died 1973) US pub date is Feb, 1928
• The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
• The Silk Stocking Murders by Anthony Berkeley

To be Validated

• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence (transcription project)
• The Missing Chums by Leslie McFarlane (transcription project)
• The Mystery of the Blue Train, by Agatha Christie (UK author died 1976) (transcription project)

Validated

• The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne (first appearance of Tigger) (UK died : 1956)

Short stories

• The Eternal Moment and other stories by E. M. Forster (UK, died 1970)
• "The Wailing Well" by M. R. James
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Wailing Well. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Captured Shadow", "The Freshest Boy", "He Thinks He's Wonderful", "The Scandal Detectives" and "The Bowl" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "The Sword of Wood" by Chesterton
• Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories (1928), by Joyce Lankester Brisley (English, died 1978)
  • The Christian Science Monitor published some of the individual stories starting in 1925, so they could be started now.
• The Devil and Other Cognate Stories by Leo Tolstoy, translated by the Maudes

Validated

• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág (transcription project)

Poetry

• John Brown's Body (1928) poem by Stephen Vincent Benét (transcription project) Pulitzer winner for poetry in 1929
• Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse by Masefield (UK: Died 1967) (external scan)
• Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres by Thomas Hardy (final book) (external scan)
• Selected Poems of Jehudah Halevi, translated by Nina Salaman, Philadelphia, 1928. (external scan)
• The Wild Party by Joseph Moncure March (written 1926, published 1928). HathiTrust record: 100819790; Internet Archive identifier: wildparty0000jose
• Sonnets, 1889–1927 by Edwin Arlington Robinson (external scan)
• Fortunatus by Edwin Arlington Robinson
• Selected Poems by Robert Frost (1928) not to be confused with the 1923 book of the same title

To be Validated

• The Tower by W. B. Yeats (transcription project)

Validated

• Sunset Gun by Dorothy Parker

Drama

• Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill (transcription project)
• Frankie and Johnny by Jack Kirkland (copyright not renewed)

To be Validated

• Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up by James Matthew Barrie (transcription project)
• Sophocles' King Oedipus, a version for the modern stage, translated by W. B. Yeats (transcription project)

Validated

• The Return of the Soldier by John Van Druten (UK: died 1957)