Wikisource:Requested texts/1929

Works from 1929 (enters public domain 2025-01-01)

On January 1st, 2025, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1929. 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

• An Autobiography: or, The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Gandhi
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• Magick in theory and practice by Aleister Crowley (external scan)
• The Vampire in Europe by Augustus Montague Summers
• The Munsell Book of Color ( and we can possibly use some later specification data in a journal to recalibrate the scans potentially.)
• A Modern Theory of Ethics: A study of the Relations of Ethics and Psychology by {{al|Olaf Stapledon}

Novels

• The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers
• A Farewell to Arms (1929) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2025 due to (Renewal: R177406 ) by Ernest Hemingway
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• The Man in the Queue by Author:Elizabeth MacKintosh aka Josephine Tey
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Author:Erich Maria Remarque (1929), translated by Author:Arthur Wesley Wheen (1929)(British, died 1971)
• The Patient in Room 18 by Author:Mignon Good Eberhart (1929) (external scan)
• Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov trans. by Natalie Duddington
• w:The Roman Hat Mystery by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee (as Ellery Queen)

Short stories

• "Rats" by M. R. James
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Rats. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "Again the Ringer" by Edgar Wallace
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Again The Ringer. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• Joining Charles and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (1929) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2025 due to (Renewal: R187649 ) (UK: died 1973)

Film

• Seven Keys to Baldpate (personal copy available)