Wikisource:Requested texts/1931

Works from 1931 (enters public domain 2027-01-01)

On January 1st, 2027, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1931. 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

• Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce Volume 1: Principles of Philosophy
• The necessity of politics; an essay on the representative idea in the church and modern Europe by Author:Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) (external scan)
• Constitution of atomic nuclei and radioactivity by George Gamow

Novels

• The Murder on the Burrows by E. C. R. Lorac

Short stories

• "The Experiment" by M. R. James
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Experiment. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Footfalls Within" by Robert E. Howard
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• "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Gods of Bal-Sagoth. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Black Stone" by Robert E. Howard
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• "The Dark Man" by Robert E. Howard
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• "Old Garfield's Heart" by Robert E. Howard
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• "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" by Clark Ashton Smith
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• "The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake" by Clark Ashton Smith
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• "The Immeasurable Horror" by Clark Ashton Smith
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• "A Voyage to Sfanomoë" by Clark Ashton Smith
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• "The Venus of Azombeii" by Clark Ashton Smith
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• "A Rendezvous in Averoigne" by Clark Ashton Smith
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• "The Necromantic Tale" by Clark Ashton Smith
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Poetry

• "The Song of a Mad Minstrel" by Robert E. Howard
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